| The Microphones – Great Ghosts Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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i love love love this song and everything i've heard from mount eerie/the microphones. after listening to this many times, reading through the lyrics and reading through everyone's comments, i've come to give my interpretation. in this song, phil talks about his ghosts like they are others, unwelcome, latching themselves onto him and his life, bringing despair. to me, the repeated idea seems like these 'stowaways' are former selves. the people he once was, returning to haunt him. his efforts to release them are fruitless because our past forms are what create us at our present. "i had my hopes of how i would be, after sending them off, after getting set free / but, there's no such thing as living without their prowling" ... "i'm teeming with ghosts and i'm still whining for wives, unknitting my brow / but, now i've surrendered / in fact, i have joined in / you can hear us howling" the lyrics above portray the permanence of one's past and the struggle to accept your ghosts and let them become a part of you, rather than fight them off. |
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