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Your Favorite Ghost

from Back Again by Bad Jacket

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So raise up your glasses and give us a toast
to the fond memory of your favorite ghost.

lyrics

I once knew a man no-one could understand
his words were twisted and bent,
They say he once stood on the edge of a wood
and met a foul shade that was sent.
Well I can relate to this cruel twist of fate
and the sour taste of destiny,
Cause I've lived my life like the blade of a knife
severing those close to me.

So raise up your glasses and give us a toast
to the fond memory of your favorite ghost,
Cause without the spirits of those who have gone
I doubt that we all could move on.

A women I once met, said she was beset
by the ghost of her self every day,
She moves through existence, keeping her distance
like a specter that stinks of decay.
She asked for a solution, demanded restitution
but only got back what she gave,
Someone suggested, she have herself tested
but I think she will take it to the grave.

So raise up your glasses and give us a toast
to the fond memory of your favorite ghost,
Cause without the spirits of those who have gone
I doubt that we all could move on.

I've been the ghost of myself for so long
haunting my life like the same old sad song,
An empty existence where you never touch
is like being a ghost pretty much.

The ghosts of the living are most unforgiving
and it's wrong to meet them in real time,
You'd be killing them you see, cause they'd no longer be
who they once were in your mind.
The truly deceased are safer at least
they can exist undisturbed,
You just reach in your mind and admire them anytime
for who or whatever they were.

So raise up your glasses and give us a toast
to the fond memory of your favorite ghost,
Cause without the spirits of those who have gone
I doubt that we all could move on.

credits

from Back Again, released July 10, 2021
© 2019 Rod Gilchrist
Guitar/Lead Vocal-Rod Gilchrist
Guitar/Vocals-Jon Plutte
Drums/Vocals-Jon Christ
Bass-Bill Oakes
Produced by Bad Jacket and Michael Molenda

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We like memorable choruses and thematic riffs, so some might say there are elements of '80s indie-rock in our music. Guilty as charged.

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