Ghost Opera

In an Interview, Thomas Youngblood (Kamelot's guitarist who wrote this song) said that it is about an opera singer who prepares for her first entrance. Alas, on the way to the opera house, she gets ambushed and raped. Over that, she loses her mind, also because she couldn't fulfil her dream because of this traumatic event.

almost correct.. Hier are the lyrics from the booklet;

walls so white... where your sorrows have a name And day is dark as night, there's no remorse and no redemption Close the door, can you hear the crowd is waiting For the last encore, screaming out for my attention

Chanting my name…

Welcome all to curtain call at the opera Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra Like a crescendo of gratitude This is my soul

Like the dead I am on the other side They have been in my head, there’s no remorse and no redemption Hush my dear; let the music fill the night Until it’s all we hear, screaming out for my attention

Chanting my name, chanting my name…

Welcome all to curtain call at the opera Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra Like a crescendo of gratitude

Don’t wake me until it’s over I… I may be dreaming away

Chanting my name, chanting my name…

Welcome all to curtain call at the opera Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra

Welcome all to curtain call at the opera Raging voices in my mind rise above the orchestra

Lyrics figured out and written down by my good friend Nikolai Khan. We went to the Kamelot concert in Helmond and when we left, they gave us the new single for free. It's the title track of the new album coming in June.

I think it is about a musician who is losing his mind because of all the attention and popularity he gets. He is becoming a sort of ghost, alienating from his audience (reminds me a bit of The Wall).

So does that mean that this is a conceptalbum as well? Yeah!

They've stated this album is not a concept album. But of course the songs have a concept. the video confirms frozens' view.

To add on to what Frzenvirus said, also she is imagining what it would be like if that never happened.

honestly i have to say that while my interpretation is probably inaccurate, i stand by what i believe. Ghost opera seems like the type of classical french drama with a twist. A woman, who has been plagued by all things negative the night of her grand opening was able to perform, and then suffer from this illegid 'rape'. she got her instant fame that fell like a tidal wave within hours. The fact is that she missed out on fame, and as an elderly woman, she finds her long lost scripts from that night, that has haunted her, her entire life. So i have to say it is much more than depression that really bites the dust on this one. Imagine how you would feel if you had a hobby, a loved one, something like that, who or what had basically left your life for all the years you lived. And imagine one day, decades later, a new era even, when you find that one thing that has been secretly haunting you for your ENTIRE life, and then think really hard how it affected you. Maybe then, you would have some empathy for the song or the FICTIONAL woman behind it.

Is no one mentioning the Phantom of the Opera here?

The lyrics even almost directly quote the musical, "Let the music fill the night" ("Music of the Night" is a song from POTO)

It says fucking "opera" in the lyrics. This may be about the writer's life in some way, but it's very clear that this was directly inspired by The Phantom of the Opera.