Opeth - Ghost of Perdition

Song: Ghost of Perdition
Artist: Opeth
Album: Ghost Reveries
Year: 2005

Awesome song by the best band ever: Opeth :) hope you like it :)
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*****Lyrics*****

Ghost of Mother
Lingering death
Ghost on Mother's bed
Black strands on the pillow
Contour of her health
Twisted face upon the head

Ghost of perdition
Stuck in her chest
A warning no one read
Tragic friendship
Called inside the fog
Pouring venom brew deceiving

Devil cracked the earthly shell
Foretold she was the one
Blew hope into the room and said:
"You have to live before you die young"

Holding her down
Channeling darkness
Hemlock for the Gods
Fading resistance
Draining the weakness
Penetrating inner light

Rode into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher

Darkness by her side
Spoke and passed her by
Dedicated hunter
Waits to pull us under
Rose up to its call
In his arms she'd fall
Mother light received
And a faithfull servant's free

In time the hissing of her sanity
Faded out her voice and soiled her name
And like marked pages in a diary
Everything seemed clean that is unstained
The incoherent talk of ordinary days
Why would we really need to live?
Decide what is clear and what's within a haze
What you should take and what to give

Ghost of perdition
A saint's premonition's unclear
Keeper of holy hordes
Keeper of holy whores

To see a beloved son
In despair of what's to come

If one cut the source of the flow
And everything would change
Would conviction fall
In the shadow of the righteous
The phantasm of your mind
Might be calling you to go
Defying the forgotten morals
Where the victim is the prey

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• Ghost
• of
• Perdition
• Opeth
• Reveries
• 2005

[moviemaster8510]

1:06 - 1:19 reminds me of Tool's The Grudge.

[SkitzoPhrenic413]

02:25 am I the only one who hears "Wieners"?

[serchio97]

Where is the "Fucking Awesome" Buttoom??

[WarLordKiro]

@SkitzoPhrenic413 yes

[2603212]

@FalseOracle617 They openly admit that they are not fond of people, especially Maynard. Hell, they don't even like each other that much. That being said they can make some beautiful fucking music.

[Eospag]

@FalseOracle617 This is actually kinda true. I remember some guy asked to take a pic with Danny Carey and he said "No I don't like taking pictures" but then when some girl asked him a few moments later he took one with her instead of him.

Talk about an asshole. Plus TooL is overrated anyway, but I do like them regardless. But they're definitely not one of my favorite bands.

[TheMrAdax]

@Dusearly LOL Get the fuck off an Opeth video. BTBAM are terrible!

[thegamers2670]

this is amazing, you cant resist turning the volume to the MAX!!!!

[cassandre2468]

@ShatteredWindowpane Cool. It would be great if you could send this story to me

[ShatteredWindowpane]

@ThatRandomGuy7787 More of the Ghost Reveries record is like what you described. Otherwise I'd suggest Harlequin Forest and The Drapery Falls as examples.

[ShatteredWindowpane]

@cassandre2468 Well said. I actually wrote a short story based on the lyrics and the atmosphere of this song alone. A lot of people say they like it, but the real praise should to go Opeth \m/

By the way, if you have trouble getting into their music, I'd suggest songs such as The Drapery Falls or Harlequin forest. The latter one I was addicted to for months when I first found this band and felt unused to them.