This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Unseen to the eyes but it plays in your heart
It scorches from inside just as it haunts
It is unknown to young lovers intoxicated by spring
But when I feel it I see flames and know everything
It lives where love has died, this ghostfire
Where poison flowers bloom
It sears from beyond sighs
In the graveyard of promises
It burns right throught the night
It's cold in here, a lover lost burns in ghostfire (Ghostfire)
Lovers sprurned took their revenge, lying to themselves tonight
Once consumed they turn to ash in its cold blue light
Those who can't take the pain
They extinguish the spark of life
For love is a confident companion in the night
It lives where love has died, this ghostfire
Where poison flowers bloom
It sears from beyond sighs
In the graveyard of promises
It burns right throught the night
It's cold in here, a lover lost burns in ghostfire
Only a lover lost burns in ghostfire
Only a lover lost burns in ghostfire (Ghostfire, ghostfire)
It scorches from inside just as it haunts
It is unknown to young lovers intoxicated by spring
But when I feel it I see flames and know everything
It lives where love has died, this ghostfire
Where poison flowers bloom
It sears from beyond sighs
In the graveyard of promises
It burns right throught the night
It's cold in here, a lover lost burns in ghostfire (Ghostfire)
Lovers sprurned took their revenge, lying to themselves tonight
Once consumed they turn to ash in its cold blue light
Those who can't take the pain
They extinguish the spark of life
For love is a confident companion in the night
It lives where love has died, this ghostfire
Where poison flowers bloom
It sears from beyond sighs
In the graveyard of promises
It burns right throught the night
It's cold in here, a lover lost burns in ghostfire
Only a lover lost burns in ghostfire
Only a lover lost burns in ghostfire (Ghostfire, ghostfire)
Lyrics submitted by CAffers
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"Ghostfire" is obviously the pain that someone feels after their heart has been broken. This song is a bit EMOish for me, and I can't seem to stop hearing "Some kind of Hate" by the Misfits when I play this song.. They're pretty similar, in my opinion. Although I prefer the latter.
emoish? wtf? this is one of the best TA songs there is.
yeah, i don't consider this emo by any means. a lot of the old-school tiger army fans seem to not be as happy with this new cd. peronally i think this newest album is the best over-all. i think nick has really established his sound, and is finally breaking away from the afi resemblance.
Not emo by any means. What the hell are you thinking? Anyways, this seems to me to be about naieve and oblivious young lovers. Those who know nothing about love and such, then get their hearts broken after breaking up or discovering the hardships of love.
Like a fire that arrives after they have failed in their relationship or something. I can't really express what I think about this song in words right now, but this is about as close as I can get.
I cant stop listening to this song. It reminds me so much of my ex. Its about two people being in love and them breaking up. There hearts burn like fucken flames. I love this song
"It's cold in here, a lover lost burns in ghostfire" should be: "Only a lover lost burns in ghostfire"
I agree with Demonomania, it's kinda about young lovers ("It is unknown to young lovers intoxicated by spring") who break up and are haunted by the fire in their hearts. Great song anyway. Has a strange, haunting feel to it.
It's not: "For love is a confident companion in the night" It's "For others it comforts, a companion in the night" =)