In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Do you remember
When word was bond
A fleeting promise on the light of the dawn
Barren December
Under a falling sky
The end of days and a reason to die
Obliteration never looked so divine
Holding your breath for the moment in time
You lived through hell
Now you're trying to die
The skin is healed
But you're bleeding inside
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save
Night blind on a shining path
Ghost walking in the aftermath
Hypnotized sixty cycle hum
The broken cadence of a distant drum
Twenty-one to one I'm liking the odds
A blood junkie with a lightning rod
A dirty rig and a heavenly nod
And still you wind up nowhere
Obliteration never looked so divine
Holding you're breath for the moment in time
You lived through hell
Now you're trying to die
The skin is healed
But you're bleeding inside
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save
There's no one left to save
There's no one left to save
You chase the dragon but it followed you home
You lost through fever dreams and broken hope
Decimation never looked so divine
Promising yourself for the very last time
You lived through hell
Now you're trying to die
The skin is healed
But you're bleeding inside
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save
There's no one left to save
There's no one left
A fever dream,
There's no one left to save
Shots forever end the pain
There's no one left to save.
When word was bond
A fleeting promise on the light of the dawn
Barren December
Under a falling sky
The end of days and a reason to die
Obliteration never looked so divine
Holding your breath for the moment in time
You lived through hell
Now you're trying to die
The skin is healed
But you're bleeding inside
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save
Night blind on a shining path
Ghost walking in the aftermath
Hypnotized sixty cycle hum
The broken cadence of a distant drum
Twenty-one to one I'm liking the odds
A blood junkie with a lightning rod
A dirty rig and a heavenly nod
And still you wind up nowhere
Obliteration never looked so divine
Holding you're breath for the moment in time
You lived through hell
Now you're trying to die
The skin is healed
But you're bleeding inside
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save
There's no one left to save
There's no one left to save
You chase the dragon but it followed you home
You lost through fever dreams and broken hope
Decimation never looked so divine
Promising yourself for the very last time
You lived through hell
Now you're trying to die
The skin is healed
But you're bleeding inside
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save
There's no one left to save
There's no one left
A fever dream,
There's no one left to save
Shots forever end the pain
There's no one left to save.
Lyrics submitted by sepultura1987
Ghost Walking Lyrics as written by David Randall Blythe Chris Adler
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is about heroin addiction. "You chase the dragon but it followed you home"... chasing the dragon is smoking heroin. "A blood junkie with a lightning rod A dirty rig and a heavenly nod" pertains to someone shooting up heroin and nodding out cause theyre high.
"chasing the dragon" may be qualify for heroin but its a more general term that is used to describe how a person seeks out a specific feeling that they don't get very often.
I agree with Dasmuse here... in this song it is about generic addiction.. love.. drugs... it could be anything.
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should be "when WORD was bond" ..... and "NIGHT blind on the shining path" watch the official video put out by roadrunner and lamb of god has the lyrics in it
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As some others said, This song is about a Heroin addiction, but not just that.
This song is about doing what you have to do to get through hard times. More specifically, this is about an american soldier going to war in vietnam, then picking up heroin as a way to deal with the stress, but even when you get through difficult times (the war) your old behaviors can remain, so he retained his heroin addiction coming back from the war.
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