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Ghost Lyrics
Ghost, ghost, I know you live within me
I feel you as you fly In thunderclouds above the city Into one that I love With all that was left within me Until we tore in two Now wings and rings and there's so many Waiting here for you And she was born in a bottle rocket, 1929 With rings that wringed right around a socket Right between her spine All drenched in milk, in holy water Pouring from the sky I know that she will live forever She won't ever die And she goes And now she knows that she'll never be afraid To watch the morning paper blow Into a hole where no one can escape And one day in New York City, baby A girl fell from the sky From the top of a burning apartment building Fourteen stories high And when her spirit left her body How it split the sun I know that she will live forever All goes on and on And she goes And now she knows that she'll never be afraid To watch the moring paper blow Into a hole where no one can escape
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03-10-2003
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06-18-2003
He dreams about her, and he could have possibly dreamt about her falling from a burning building in NY.
Who knows. It's almost impossible to decipher Mangum's genius.
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06-22-2003
"and she was born in a bottle rocket 1929".. anne frank was born in 1929..
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06-24-2003
and i think the part about the girl in new york was something different.
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04-13-2004
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05-01-2004
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05-17-2004
I think this song has much more to do with being comfortable with death by realizing we all live on. Not a religious song about heaven more a spiritual one about how we carry every one we love with us even after they pass.
"Ghost Ghost I know you live within me"
Anyone who has lost someone close to them knows that their ghost lives within them, it does not haunt them, more like guides them. People never die because we live in the hearts and minds of those we touch. This can occur in a positive or negative way, but this song is positive to me. Ann Frank's story touched JM, he felt overwhelmed by her strength, I feel he invited Ann Frank to live inside of him. He knows she will never die because her story lives on.
I feel you as you fly
In thunder clouds above the city
Into one that I love
A ghost will hover around until it finds someone to become a part of.
Now wings and rings and there's so many
Waiting here for you
wings and rings are a reference to an angel...waiting here for you means there are so many Ann Frank has touched, she becomes a part of all of these people.
I know that she will live forever
She won't ever die
And she goes
And now she knows that she'll never be afraid
To watch the morning paper blow
Into a hole where no one can escape
She is not afraid because she lives on as her story lives on.
A morning paper tells yesterdays news. If one is to die they become the news in the morning paper. She is no longer afraid of the morning paper cause she knows she will transcend it by living on in the hearts of others.
Into a hole where no one can escape is explaining that we all must go at some point but the key is to touch those we meet. To transcend time. To find immortality. This is a very spiritual song not a religious one, it is about Ann Frank but it doesn't have to be. Like I said anyone that has lost anyone close to them knows what this song is about, listen to it when you miss them, they will come back to u. Your brain records every second of your life, play it back every once in awhile, those that your carry with you will be alive once again.
JM said he woke up at 3 am. walked into the bathroom and felt this song inside him.
Sometimes without a warning you remember someone from your past, you have their ghost telling you stories, listen to them.
This is a great song on the best album ever recorded.
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12-10-2004
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12-11-2004
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01-18-2005
"And when her spirit left her body
How it split the sun
I know that she will live forever
All goes on and on"
Mangum is exploring/questioning the value of a human life, maybe specifically that of anne frank.
Her soul splits the sun-- yet no one notices-> keeps on truckin'
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02-05-2005
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10-06-2005
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12-08-2005
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02-07-2006
the message might be cliché, but Mangum makes it seem new.
it's a cool song, and it's loud. it's a cloud. of intense manguminity.
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03-17-2006
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05-02-2006
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07-12-2006
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07-14-2006
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08-07-2006
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12-23-2006
When I started writing "Ghost," the song that goes [he sings] "Ghost ghost I know you live within me," we thought we had a ghost living in the house, in the bathroom. So I locked the door and started to sing to the ghost in the bathroom. But that was sort of like singing about the ghost who we thought was whistling in the other room, and that kept waking me up, and then also a ghost that may or may not live within me. And it ended up being a reference to Anne Frank, too. A lot of the songs on this record are about Anne Frank.
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07-25-2007
I think this may refer to Robert Goddard, an American scientist famous for developing liquid fuels in bottle rockets in the 1920s.
From Wikipedia: "After a launch of one of Goddard's rockets in July 1929 again gained the attention of the newspapers, Charles Lindbergh learned of his work ... By late 1929, Goddard had been attracting additional notoriety with each rocket launch. He was finding it increasingly difficult to conduct his research without unwanted distractions."
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07-10-2008
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07-18-2008
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03-05-2009
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03-12-2009
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