Ghost Reveries
Opeth
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Ghost of Perdition
10 : 29
2
The Baying of the Hounds
10 : 41
3
Beneath the Mire
07 : 57
4
Atonement
06 : 28
5
Reverie / Harlequin Forest
11 : 39
6
Hours of Wealth
05 : 20
7
The Grand Conjuration
10 : 21
8
Isolation Years
03 : 51
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Track Lyrics
Ghost of Perdition Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Refrain]
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"
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"
[Verse 2]
Holding her down channeling darkness
Hemlock for the Gods
Fading resistance, draining the weakness
Penetrating inner light
[Bridge 1]
Road into the dark unaware
Winding ever higher
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
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, a faithful servant's free
[Pre-Chorus]
In time the hissing of her sanity
Faded out her voice and soiled her name
Like the 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's clear and what's within a haze
What you should take and what to give
[Chorus]
Ghost of perdition
A saint's premonition's unclear
Keeper of holy hordes
Keeper of holy whores
[Bridge 2]
To see a beloved son in despair of what's to come
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
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
The Baying of the Hounds Lyrics
[Instrumental Break]
And I embrace bereavement
Everything beloved is shattered anyway
I would devote myself to anyone, I would accept any flaws
I am too weak to resist
Tension vibrating with horror, finding the outcast in my eyes
Pushing nerves on a puppet, endless poison in my veins
Clean intent now tainted with death
And so, cold touch now inhumane
Every waking hour awaiting a reverie to unfold
And now they are calling me
Louder by the minute
The baying of the hounds calling me back to my home
Beneath the Mire Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
Haunted nights for halcyon days
Can't sleep to the scraping of his voice
Nature's way struck grief in me
And I became a ghost in sickness
Willingly guided into heresy
Beneath the surface, stark emptiness
And you'd pity my conviction
Whereas I thought of myself as a leader
You'd cling to your pleasant hope
It is twisted fascination
While I'd ruin the obstacles into despair
And I'm praising death
[Guitar Solo]
Lost love of the heart
In a holocaust scene memory
[Guitar & Keyboard Solo]
Decrepit body wearing transparent skin
Inside, the smoke of failure
Wept for solace and submit to faith
In his shadow I am choking, yet flourishing
Master
A delusion made me stronger
Yet I'm draped in pale withering flesh
I sacrificed more than I had
And left my woes beneath the mire
[Guitar Solo]
Atonement Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Cleared the fog that was veiled around me and blurred my sights
Suddenly, I'm no longer aching to honor my plights
[Verse 2]
Rising moon and my skin is peeling, past undone
Suddenly, I can't justify what I had become
The Grand Conjuration Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Majesty, faithful me
Pour yourself into me
Wield your power, martyr's price
Stare me down to the ground
[Chorus 1]
The eyes of the devil fixed on his sinners
[Verse 2]
Slake my thirst, eternal wealth
Heathen key 'round my neck
This poetry our blasphemy
Know the sounds of infamy
[Chorus 2]
The hands of Satan assembling his flock
Pale horse rider searching the earth
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Whispered conjuration, a belief takes form
Choking hand tapping the veins in your throat
His orders in your mouth, a decree for domination
Beneath the tides of wisdom spins the undertow of hate
Injected seeds of vengeance, usurper's eyes of the powerless
Clean path to his kingdom beckoning in the mist
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Refrain]
The grand conjuration
[Verse 4]
Tell me why
Love subsides
In the light
Of your wish
Say my name
Ease the pain
Clear the smoke
In my head
[Instrumental Outro]