| Ghost – Satan Prayer Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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It's a parody of the Nicene Creed, essentially a mission statement written at the Council of Nicaea used by the Catholic church, saying this is what we believe. This song is Ghost's version, the Anti-Nicene Creed. They essentially took the Nicene Creed and reversed it and made it rhyme so instead of "We believe in one God, the Father Almighty" it's "Believe in one God do we, Satan almighty" The title is also a parody of the "Lord's Prayer," a famous passage of scripture |
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| Ghost – Ritual Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This song, as well as Con Clavi Con Dio, very well establishes that this isn't some standard rock or metal album and they aren't just some band, they are agents of Satan come to do his work on earth and they performing a ritual, not a rock show. Really helps set the mood that you're watching/listening to a dark mass. | |
| Ghost – Prime Mover Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Satan fucked a nun and they finally conceived the Anti-Christ. He gets born in the next two songs, Genesis and Here Comes the Son | |
| Ghost – Per Aspera Ad Inferni Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"Through hardships to Hell" When we previously left Ghost, they had just conceived and birthed the Anti-Christ at the end of "Opus Epnoymous" now we are heralding His coming and His bringing of Armageddon. It took a long time, and many hardships, but they finally achieved Hell on earth |
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| Ghost – Mummy Dust Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| It's a song about money and how it corrupts, satirizing the "In God We Trust" that's found on American currency. Something Papa said to my crowd in Salt Lake City on the Meliora tour was all religions only worship one God, the same God, and that God is money. Don't let them fool you, if someone tells you they know what happens after you die and will tell you if you pay them they are lying to you. | |
| Ghost – Monstrance Clock Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Papa has said many times they end shows with this because it's like an orgasm and this song celebrates orgasms, especially the much historically and religiously demonized female orgasm, that's where the double entendre "Come together" comes into play... Essentially it's about having sex to praise Satan, which is a teaching in LeVayan Satanism, sex is healthy and natural and feels good, it shouldn't be considered a sin. So go fuck each other and make each other cum, don't be selfish. This has been sex advice with Papa. |
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| Ghost – Majesty Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| By Meliora the Anti-Christ had been conceived (Opus Epnoymous) and born (Infestissumam) and is now here. The narrator is worshiping the Devil and finds it funny yet pathetic that only now are normal people following suit, and in such numbers it looks like a sea of people clogging around his Majesty, the old one, Satan. | |
| Ghost – La Mantra Mori Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| "La Mantra Mori" means the Death Mantra and a mantra is something you repeat to meditate with, like when kids fake meditate and they go "ooohm, ooohm"... But instead of saying "ooohm" they are repeating how they want you dead. | |
| Ghost – Jigolo Har Megiddo Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| For those wondering what the title means it's the "Gigolo of Megido," Megido being the place where the apocalypse is said to take place in the Bible. The song is about the Anti-Christ, the bringer of the end of the world, thus being from "Megido" going around sexing up women, or being a gigolo in a broad sense. | |
| Ghost – Infestissumam Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"The Father The Son And the Evil Spirit Everything heavenly Must be destroyed The Anti-Christ The Son of Satan The most hostile one" That's the general translation of the Hellish choir calling out about the arrival of the Anti-Christ |
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| Ghost – Idolatrine Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"Religion is meant to scare children from doing bad stuff with the threat of Hell, and any adult who continues believing in it is an imbecile, debile (Latin for weak minded or feeble) and simpleton" That's essentially the core concept of the song |
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| Ghost – He Is Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The brilliance of this song is soooo underappreciated, it's such artful parody. The title is "He Is" and it starts with clean guitars playing a simple but sad melody, it actually sounds like a typical Christian worship song. In fact even once the triumphant chorus comes in "He is/He's the shining and the light without whom I cannot see" sounds like a line you'd hear in some white guy with an acoustic guitar worship song, but then "And he is/Insurrection, he is spite, he's the thing that makes me be" you realize the song isn't about God, it's about Satan, then the following verses get darker. Ghost's music, as compared to other metal bands singing about Satan, feel like actual worship music and this song is the ultimate parody of it. Outside of the base lyrics, I remember at one point hearing Tobias saying this was actually written about a friend and hero of his that committed suicide, but was able to morph it into something that fit into the Ghost umbrella |
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| Ghost – Ghuleh / Zombie Queen Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Ghuleh is the female version of "Ghoul," this is a love song to his Haresis Dea (Heretic Goddess), the Zombie Queen, his Ghuleh, who will rise again and take her place next him once Satan's plan is complete | |
| Ghost – Genesis Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I know this is an instrumental but let me just put a magnifying glass on something about this that I find really cool. Opus Eponymous is such a brilliant record even by the way it's laid out, it doesn't sound like it but it's really a subtle concept record/rock opera. The band introduces themselves with Con Clavi Con Dio, We're here to worship Satan and bring about his reign. Then it goes to Ritual, saying that this rock show/album is actually a ritual, not just some album. Then as it goes through Satan Prayer, a direct parody of parts of actual sermons in Christian churches, then Death Knell is how we are very close to anti-Christ being here, in fact so close we can hear the bells calling in the end of the world. Prime Mover is about the literal act of Satan impregnating a nun to conceive the anti-Christ and then this, Genesis, is his birth. The beginning of the end. | |
| Ghost – From the Pinnacle to the Pit Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Actually I think this has more of populist political message in it than one of "satan" per se, with the standard Ghost coverings on it as to not break from their personas. Ghost is from Sweden, a pretty socialist country, and I think that this song and the video are them advocating for social, and it could be read as economic, equality. It's about toppling the elites, the ones that have power, wear crowns and gowns, wield scepters and globus crucigers will build their ivory towers so tall that eventually it will fall, and when it does... Well, it's a long, long way down. Luckily this sort of message does correlate to the message Lucifer was preaching before he was cast out from heaven (to the ground) so Ghost is able to stay in character while writing a song with a much more socially aware message than they have previously |
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| Ghost – Elizabeth Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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As to sokorny's question to me this is the narrator, Papa, being in love with the Countess Bathory. He's proselytizing about this evil old woman with the cold black eyes that murdered virgin peasants to bathe in their blood to keep herself young and beautiful and how, because of that, she's not only part of their dark congregation but they are either currently lovers or it's an unrequited love. Personally I think it's the latter. For those who don't know Countess Bathory was eventually found out and locked up until her dying day in a tower in her castle. To me the song is Papa saying his love is up in that tower, still alive, and he will eventually rescue her from her captors and they will live evil-ly ever after |
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| Ghost – Devil Church Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This song is about God obviously | |
| Ghost – Deus in Absentia Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The title translated from Latin means "In the absence of God" which is the general concept of Meliora. Opus Eponymous was about creating the anti-Christ, Infestissumam was about the anti-Christ being on earth and Meliora I believe is the aftermath of all that. Much like a lot of Ghost's songs this song is a narrator essentially berating and mocking someone. This one is kind of hard to get a meaning from but, to me, this song is the narrator talking to someone who was religious, worshiping God, discovering the darkness and his world is falling apart around him. Now that he knows the truth, he forsaken to stay and burn with the narrator. |
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| Ghost – Deus Culpa Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| The deep lyrics of this song make me think it's about Satan... | |
| Ghost – Depth of Satan's Eyes Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| The narrator is proselytizing to a group of lost souls, likely formerly religious people, about how great Satan is and how he can help ascend them from the terrible world they're in now. The world's a shitty place but if you come with me and follow Satan it's all bright and warm and wonderful. | |
| Ghost – Death Knell Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The whole first album is about the coming of the anti-Christ... View "Opus Eponymous" as some sort of sermon by Papa I about how He will come again. Don't you worry, it's very near, in fact can't you hear the bells of doom?? It's sounding, the end is finally coming! Then it goes to Prime Mover, where the Devil and the nun that will carry the anti-Christ conceive and He is born in Genesis/Here Comes the Son... The album is actually a very loose concept album/rock opera |
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| Ghost – Con Clavi Con Dio Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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To me this is essentially Ghost's mission statement in the form of a song. "Lucifer/We are here/For your praise/Evil one" "Demigod/Our task/Behind mask/Chosen son" It's them establishing that the "band" is actually some dark Satanic cult here to fulfill some evil thing Satan requires... Through rock n roll, of course. |
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| Ghost – Cirice Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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To me the narrator is a religious figure, a prophet/bishop/pastor/father whatever, and is very successfully convincing someone in a very vulnerable place to join his sect (and possibly his bed). Being an American and knowing the very charismatic leaders of various Christian sects here and that tactics they use I can't help but think of some televangelist or an old southern Baptist preacher. It's hitting all the main beats that someone would do to convince a vulnerable person to join a religion or cult. "I can feel your presence amongst us/You cannot hide in the darkness" They start off sweet, caring and seemingly omniscient and subtly acknowledges they are in a bad place. "I know your soul is not tainted/Even though you've been told so" This is the narrator essentially saying "I'm not like the other religions you've tried in your life, telling you you're worthless, I can feel you're actually very special, come with me" Through the chorus he continues to woo the person, in my head it's a woman, and now they're officially a part of the cult. The repetition of using phrases that both lift this person up and tearing them down causes the person to subconsciously seek this person's constant approval, to the point where he convinces her to sleep with him "A candle casting a faint glow/You and I see eye to eye Now there is nothing between us/From now our merge is eternal Can’t you see that you’re lost?/Can’t you see that you’re lost without me?" From now our merge is eternal to me is him saying you are now forever mine, I can do whatever I want with you, you are powerless to me. Think of the narrator as some sort of Charles Manson type of person, through charisma and abuse is able to manipulate people to do things they probably wouldn't have done before. Because of the band and how they look I'll always see a correlation to religion they're trying to make, implying many of these religions use the same abusive manipulation tactics on weak minded and vulnerable people as cult leaders do, they if you don't see that I understand it's a stretch since there's no real mention of religion at all in this song. It's essentially about abuse that, in my opinion, relates to religion |
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| Ghost – Body And Blood Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| To me this song always sounded like someone thinking the rituals of sacrament or communion, where members of the congregation act as though they eating the body and drinking the blood of Jesus, are extremely barbaric and took them to the next level. The narrator is literally serving pieces of the dead body of Jesus to the congregation as the dark parody of a sacrament. | |
| Ghost – Absolution Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Personally I see this song as more the narrator (The devil) mocking someone in a particular faith (I wonder which one) for being led his entire life to believe that simply being religious or having a belief in a God he will be rewarded in an afterlife. "As a child, with your mind on the horizon Over corpses, to the prize you kept your eyes on Trying to be the chosen one" Religion, intentionally or not, makes people look more towards a future that very likely won't happen, i.e. heaven/an after life, rather than paying attention to the present. This person, even as a kid with his whole life in front of him, is spending his time day dreaming for heaven and wanting to be a good person yet doesn't seem to notice the corpses under his feet that, by not paying attention to, are partially caused by him. These corpses could symbolize anything from actual dead bodies caused by things like war or starvation to any human affliction really like poverty or injustice, etc that he could have helped had he not been looking out to the horizon when everything will be better for everyone. Why help out this hungry kid when in the end we'll all be fed and comfortable in heaven? To me the chorus and the last verse suggests he's met either God or the Devil in the afterlife and one of them is telling him to cry for absolution, beg for forgiveness for his sins. In my opinion I think it's the Devil talking to this man, the last verse especially is him telling the man "Look at you, you're in Hell and you're still trying to prove to me you're some sort of saint"... Or it could be from the perspective of God condemning the man the Hell saying "Oh, you think you're good enough to get here? You're asking for forgiveness? Oh, you will cry, don't you worry" then hits the lever I assume he has that opens the trap door to Hell, but knowing Ghost I doubt that was the meaning. All in all I always get a feeling of spite from the narrator to the subject, one how pathetic he is. Look at you sitting in your golden palace in Italy that is meant to praise God, thinking you're getting to heaven while there are people starving in the streets outside. You're a disgrace. |
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