Dance Macabre Lyrics

Lyric discussion by AlizarinRose 

Cover art for Dance Macabre lyrics by Ghost

This song is not even as complicated and Ghost fans want it to be, or think it is. First of all, nearly every fan of Ghost is under 30, at least that I have encountered, and I am older than Papa, who will be 42 this year. That being said, all of you kids are completely missing the double entendre that death universaly represents; Sexual satisfaction. ORGASM. Dance Macabre is about sex. This song is about fucking, and wrecklessly indulging in hedonistic behaviour, because you're going to die soon. How would I connect these dots? Experience kids. TF stated the setting;

My Interpretation

@AlizarinRose TF stated the setting; A plague ridden Europe, dead bodies in the street, people were dead 3 days after symptoms manifested, so what did the living do amidst the stench of rotting corpses in the street? They partied, and fucked whores all night, which I am btw, I am sacred hallowed ground because I keep men sexually staisfied. Men who are not sexually satisfied will become violent at some point, because for men, sex is a need, not a want. Those whores during that time of plague, probably kept a lot of men alive, or from doing insane crazy...

Yet there is another sexual them woven into this highly sex charged song- but I have to say something first, and it's a comparison- I may be correct, however I will own to being wrong, in assuming that not one single Ghost fans owns even one Depeche Mode album, not even Violater, and if you've heard Personal Jesus, it was likely a cover version, and who reads liner notes? Well, Depeche Mode has Martin Gore, who is also a Genius who knows how to write deliciously dark pop music that examines the various darknesses inherent in human nature, however, when...