Ghost Of The Sun

I'm really not quite sure what the WHOLE song is about, but I figure from the choruses a broken relationship is a part of it.

Interesting note: Jonas Renske mentions "The city of glass that I live in." Perhaps more than a coincidence that the instrumental closing track on the album is called "Inside the City of Glass"?

hmm a relationship? i thought it was more about brotherhood and betrayal.

I agree with the brotherhood aspect - it helps tie it in to "My Twin" on Great Cold Emptiness, which shares a number of similar lyrical themes with Viva Emptiness. Also - "city of glass" is a brilliant description of depression. Hats off to Jonas.

Ghost of the sun literally means the end, so "I've seen the ghost of the sun" means (I saw the end coming). Leaving the rest to you simple friends, because I am a very busy man.

I think these are interesting lyrics. I see it as someone who's tried to identify with a group and found nothing of value from this.

"I once changed my style When they said hello I said goodbye I once played a role I was out there marketing my soul"

• This sounds like the character's changed themselves to try and belong somewhere, changing their style and marketing themselves to fit in with a group of people, but "when they said hello I said goodbye" is hinting at the trade-off between social acceptance and personal integrity. They - the group - "say hello" while the character "says goodbye" to themselves.

"The city of glass that I live in The coldness from my brothers skin"

• The city of glass for me is the character's... character, almost. Like they feel as though selling themselves like this has made them fragile and weakened on the inside. The coldness line is probably about betrayal, not being helped when needed.

"I trusted you you lied It's all I hear a fucking lie I don't give a shit it's over now It's all I know you broke the vow"

• The best bit of the song XD for me anyways... it's pretty self-explanatory I think, they feel intensely betrayed by this, and bitter that it hasn't got them anything of value. Because of this experience they don't trust anyone anymore; "it's all I hear, a fucking lie" saying that now all they hear from other people is a lie because they were so deeply impacted by this.

Awesome song!

The sun is an entity that has inherited through sacrifice the responsibility of leading a planet into the next transition phase. There can only be one such entity for a planet. Our courts are a poor Machine replication of this natural law system. Suffice to say there can only be one judge. Jonas has seen prophetic visions/dreams of Jesus. Jesus is the sun/son. He knows in his heart the end is near as he was granted those cosmic downloads. He can't undo the way he perceives reality anymore, as he is in service to others now that he is reborn he no longer seeks social acceptance. He feels that great cold distance between himself and his slave brother. This is what viva emptiness is about. It's about the current incarnation/world state spiritually. Vast majority are living a lie empty and devoid of soul hence the "out there marketing my soul" reference to his old self. Now he sees the lie all around him. He feels let down by his fellow human beings that he once trusted. This song is beautiful because it speaks of how he can't undo the visions he saw that have opened up his heart to god and made him willing to pay the price of loniless to walk the straight and narrow path.

Jonas is one kickass vocalist. I discovered this band not too long ago, though. =/ Anyway, I saw a video of this one live, totally badass. :) I believe this one is about betrayal of two close friends. I think the line stating, "the city of glass.." describes him not being able to see what was really happening..

I think it's rather about someone who used to live in a bad environment, surrounded by evil people, maybe by social margin, and one day he breaks out of it since he realises they've been simply deceiving him. "It's all I know, you broke the vow" - maybe it means they promised him he'd become superior to everyone else when he joins them, but he noticed in a time that they only pull him down and make him someone like them - someone who simply debased himself. And he doesn't want to live this way. "I once changed my style / When they said hello I said goodbye" - this means perhaps they're trying to make him return to them, but he finally keeps his eyes open to see what were they doing with him. And "the city of glass that I live in" - maybe it means "I've been living a lie"? Or maybe he wants to say through this that the life he used to live is worthless and fragile, just like something made of glass.