I like to think of this whole album as a single narrative. Partly taking place in the real world, and partly in a shared dreamscape, between two to three characters struggling with loss and depression. So to me, Lighthouse picks up right where Lion's Roar ends, in that the man searching for the missing girl from Lion's Roar finds her in the circus, tries to free her from it and they start a fire to escape the people chasing them at the end of the song.
Where Lighthouse picks up the story, the Searching Man is the first singer (verses 1, 2, 4), and the second singer (verses 3, 5, 6) is the Missing Girl. He just recently arrived from over sea ("Desperate Search across sea and land" from lion's roar), so he knows about the coming storm, and the girl is from the Burning City or spent time there as a child, so she knows about the ghost in the lighthouse. They go there and die, but not really because all of this was part of the dreamscape.
The Ghost is a previous version of the Missing Girl (Singer #2), from a past relationship that turned toxic (the lover that never returned, is her ex that changed and she never recognized him again). So it's a part of herself that she had to "kill" to move on, or a part of herself that her ex "killed" during the toxic relationship.
I like to think of this whole album as a single narrative. Partly taking place in the real world, and partly in a shared dreamscape, between two to three characters struggling with loss and depression. So to me, Lighthouse picks up right where Lion's Roar ends, in that the man searching for the missing girl from Lion's Roar finds her in the circus, tries to free her from it and they start a fire to escape the people chasing them at the end of the song.
Where Lighthouse picks up the story, the Searching Man is the first singer (verses 1, 2, 4), and the second singer (verses 3, 5, 6) is the Missing Girl. He just recently arrived from over sea ("Desperate Search across sea and land" from lion's roar), so he knows about the coming storm, and the girl is from the Burning City or spent time there as a child, so she knows about the ghost in the lighthouse. They go there and die, but not really because all of this was part of the dreamscape.
The Ghost is a previous version of the Missing Girl (Singer #2), from a past relationship that turned toxic (the lover that never returned, is her ex that changed and she never recognized him again). So it's a part of herself that she had to "kill" to move on, or a part of herself that her ex "killed" during the toxic relationship.
[Edit: spelling]