Cherry Ghost - My God Betrays

Biography (from Wikipedia):

Cherry Ghost began in 2005, first as an alias for Simon Aldred as a solo artist, before morphing into a full band. Early sessions with Doves bassist and vocalist Jimi Goodwin and a special appearance on Later...with Jools Holland helped excel the band's beginnings. Cherry Ghost were one of only a handful of bands and musicians to have been invited onto Jools Holland's programme before having released any material. Cherry Ghost signed to Heavenly Records, and released their debut single "Mathematics" in April 2007. The debut album, Thirst for Romance, was released in July 2007, following the release of the single "People Help the People" two weeks before, which charted on the UK Singles Chart at #27. The album was met with generally positive reviews, and entered the UK Albums Chart at #7. A third single, "4 AM," was released in September 2007 and charted at #128. A live EP entitled iTunes Festival: Live in London, recorded in July 2007 at the iTunes Festival, was released digitally in November 2007.

In September 2007, Cherry Ghost were nominated for Best New Act at the 2007 Q Awards. In early 2008, Cherry Ghost won an Ivor Novello Award for "People Help the People" in the category of Best Contemporary Song.

In March 2008, Simon announced through a MySpace blog posting that the band were at the writing stage for the second album and had seven songs written, which had been distilled from over 50 different tunes. The bulk of the album was written across Europe, namely Berlin and Rome. The band began recording the album in January 2009. A later blog post indicated that the band were recording in a converted barn.

On 27 December 2009, Simon posted on MySpace that the second album had been finished and was "due to be mixed in the next month or two". On 29 April 2010, a message on the band's MySpace page stated the title of the new album as Beneath This Burning Shoreline, with a release date of 5 July 2010. Beneath This Burning Shoreline was released to positive reviews, garnering 4-star reviews from publications such as Q, The Guardian, and The Independent. The album's first single, "Kissing Strangers," was released as a single-track download on 28 June 2010.

Links:

Official Site: http://www.cherryghost.co.uk
Myspace Site: http://www.myspace.com/cherryghostband

Category:

Music

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• ghost
• my
• god
• betrays
• heavenly
• records
• uk
• simon
• aldred
• jim
• rhodes
• ben
• parsons
• phill
• anderson
• grenville
• harrop
• beneath
• this
• burning
• shoreline

[OafBoaster]

my God betrays dumb fist of tragedy hit the door my God betrays waits for a signal and takes the floor dances and sways plays to the crowd strangles the light from my day oh my God betrays my God betrays spat on a handshake and called it quits my God betrays crept down the hall, finger at his lips dances and sways lays on the charm strangles the light from my day oh my God betrays

[sontalify]

@OafBoaster Thank you very much my friend for taking the trouble to enlighten us on this issue. I'm sure that now this beautiful song will be appreciated even more. :D

[leo87272]

Could you please write down the lyrics? Thank you! I'm not native speaker but I can understand the lyrics once they are written... I really would like to get the meaning of this song. thank You.

[sontalify]

@leo87272

It would be my pleasure really, but I'm not a native speaker myself either and there are a few spots that I hardly comprehend as well. Still I'm sure that this lyric will help you understand the general idea though: "my god betrays, watches my love bloom, and curses it down" and eventually "strangles the life of my day". I wish the band or somebody else could write down the lyrics for us all.

[OafBoaster]

my God betrays saddles the four winds and hits the town my God betrays watches my love bloom and cuts it down dances and sways lays on the charm strangles the light from my day oh my God betrays seen turning the cheek turn in on the weak and piss all the promise away oh my God betrays

[slickcross]

This guy is a true poet

[jowfeedback93]

Oh how I adore this song. Such a controversial issue, yet so cleverly subtle in the lyric writing. Cherry Ghost are absolute geniuses.

[13deathwishes]

Oh, I fell in love.

[quantise]

One of my gig highlights last year was Simon Aldred taking the stage at Manchester Cathedral and performing this solo. You could have heard a pin drop. Spine tingling stuff.

[ProtiliusDOTcom]

Brilliant... Let me know if you need an engineer ever, would love to help make this shine even more than it already does.

[smithbarrie]

What a perfect song by a absolutely brilliant band. This song i will never get tired of listening to.

[MrWadieboy]

absolutely fantastic.a perfect song 

[rezaks]

an absolute masterpiece! thanks for postin the lyrics.