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If You Have Ghosts Lyrics

If you have ghosts
Than you have everything
If you have ghosts
Than you have everything

You can say anything you want
and you can do anything you want

If you have ghosts
Than you have everything

One never does that
One never does that

You can call it
Surprise there it is

The moon to the left of me
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

one never does that

in the night I am real
in the night I am real

The moon to the left of me
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

Wherever is the wind
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

In the night I am real

I don't want me
fangs too long

I don't want my
fangs too long

The moon to the left of me
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

Forever is the wind
to the left of me
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

I don't want my
fangs too long

If you have ghosts
than you have everything
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Cover art for If You Have Ghosts lyrics by Roky Erickson

Pagans use a symbol called the triple moon which shows a full moon in the middle with a waxing crescent moon to the left and a waning one to the right. These represent three stages of life. In many pagan traditions, the three moons are described in female terms (in accordance with the goddess that many pagans worship). The waxing crescent represents the maiden (hence youth) and the waning crescent represents the crone (old age, death). The writer refers to "the moon to the left of me"; from the writer's perspective he is referring to old age. The future is clearly on his mind, ghosts are often a metaphor for memories and one's past. I think the lyrics are about never learning from mistakes, the ghosts should enable you to (have everything) but for us imperfect humans they don't.

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Cover art for If You Have Ghosts lyrics by Roky Erickson

brilliant track!

embrace the strange

Cover art for If You Have Ghosts lyrics by Roky Erickson

The song is about the loneliness in being schizophrenic paranoid. The ghosts are his only friends. They are in his imagination, so they are not even real.

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Cover art for If You Have Ghosts lyrics by Roky Erickson

I thought this song was about Werewolves, "I don't want my fangs too long"?

@stevenova1 It's partly meant to evoke images of werewolves but mostly it refers to the term 'long in the tooth'. When people get older their gums recede and their teeth look longer. He's saying he's worrying about death but he's afraid of being old and infirm, too.

 
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