Opeth - Ghost of Perdition

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



*****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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[1orcist2]

you will want to check out tool. beautifull lyrics and awesome sound.

[earlywormgetsbird]

the biggest ironic part of your statement here is the fact that pink floyd was actually the first band to implement screaming listen to be careful with that axe eugene roger waters uses screaming to imply a mood much the same as in metal today the "scream" is used to convey a mood that simply cannot be created using singing

[motomify]

You should be ashamed.

[Chris Hansen]

Edge of Sanity

[MuztShred]

f*ck your music!

[TheFeralTalon]

Also, Isis.

[tony canzoneri]

you're fucking retarded..and i like slipknot but..please tell me you're a troll

[MrYouJONESTube]

slipknot are so much better. opeth just dont try, they recycle music

[shadowagony95]

may be moonlapse vertigo ?

[kingofdeads616]

I don't know why but the soundz remind me to Tool

[Bobby Orwig]

Rock on. Finally someone gives me an answer.  But I'm one step ahead of you on all those :p

Any other Opeth recommendations?

[shadowagony95]

if u want a good thrash metal song listen to slayer angel of death

if u want a heavy metal song listen to megadeth in my darkes hour

if u want a gothic metal song listen to epica the obsessive devotion or consign to oblivion