Jack Conte - Lonely Ghost

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A VideoSong is a new Medium with two rules:

1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).

Lonely Ghost by Jack Conte

Lyrics:

And on this casket's back sits a little lonely ghost. He misses his old lungs and wishes he had his throat, those good old days! Daylight will wash away. It's going to fade, yeah it will fade, and the darkness will take it's place. It's going to come, yeah it will come, so I'm grateful for this consciousness oasis that paints the darkest carpet with a sudden streak of white. We burn so bright!

I will swallow it whole, I'm going to run, yeah I will run until my body breaks down. I'm filling up, yeah fill me up. Fill me up!

Don't look back: you'll turn to salt. So just march on, let moments melt.

I'm awake. Wake up! Wake UP! I'm awake, I'm AWAKE! And I'll never piss that away. Let's be loud, let's love, let's make some sound! Let's make some sound!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jack
• conte
• jackcontemusic
• lonely
• ghost
• electronica
• accordion
• organ
• aurora
• wurlitzer
• guitar

[sabbath994]

thumbs up if you dont know who the fuck daisy owl is

[TuPadreesTuMadre]

Musical genius? I think so.

[lenasroom]

2:14...so good.

[StealthyXxX]

this guys is a faggot, mainly due to that little princess from australia

[jammetti]

Yeah, I downloaded this song, saved it to 3 hard drives, puted them in a box and buried them 50 feet underground.

IT'S SAFE U GUYS! we can live without worries ^^

[DominiqueGould]

@bannanatree "so I'm grateful for this consciousness oasis that paints the darkest carpet with a sudden streak of white. We burn so bright!" So he's glad he's alive. He may have problems - the dark carpet - but the fact that he's alive is a "streak of white." "Don't look back: you'll turn to salt" just means don't look back at the past, nothing good will come of it. Instead, just "let moments melt." The rest of the lyrics are basically celebrations of life.

[DominiqueGould]

@bannanatree The song's about appreciating life while you have it. First the example of a ghost who misses his life, then focusing on his own life, which has its troubles at the moment - but at least he's alive, and he's never going to take that for granted. "Daylight will wash away. It's going to fade, yeah it will fade, and the darkness will take it's place. It's going to come, yeah it will come." Daylight = life and darkness = death. He knows he's going to die.

[NeutralNewt]

@bannanatree Don't get too caught up on the literal; it seems to me that this song is not necessarily a story, but a message. He's saying, nothing lasts--everything fades, we all die. But too many take life for granted before it's gone (like the ghost), so he says: Be grateful for this life. Take every opportunity to enjoy it fully. Don't get hung up on the past ("look back"), and become aware of the life you're living ("wake up") so you don't miss out on it. That's what I get out of it, anyway.

[chmusicstation]

Simply amazing. This actually sounds Incubus-esque. Me likey

[hohenheim1107]

Donde se fue la sonrisa que siempre tiene en sus vídeos de pomplamoose

[buriedjoe1080]

Jack you sound so much like Brandon Boyd it's almost uncanny!

[bannanatree]

@bannanatree

Maybe someone watching a funeral?