 Genius Lyrics
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Ghost – Idolatrine
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“Idolatrine” was released as a part of Infestissumam in 2013. The song’s name is a combination of two words:
“Idol”: referring to a deity or any person on the top of a spiritual
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Ghost – Idolatrine - Commentary Version
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Yeah, Idolitrine. I don't know. It's a made up word basically. It comes from idolatry and latrine. The church throughout all these years has quite openly looked down upon it's
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Ghost - Infestissumam (Tradução em Português)
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[Verso] / O Pai, o Filho e o espírito maligno / Tudo o que é divino deve ser destruído / Anticristo, o filho de Satanás: mais hostil / O Pai, o Filho e o espírito maligno / Tudo o
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Ghost – Year Zero - Commentary Version
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What's funny about that song is... That the two albums that we have done are very much thought out as being vinyl records, albums, in the old sense. What you get then is basically
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Ghost – Year Zero
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Off Ghost BC’s second album Infestissumam, a theatrical work essentially telling the story of the birth and rise of Satan.
“Year Zero” begins with a choir chanting what seems to
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Ghost – The Depth of Satan's Eyes - Commentary Version
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It is a song about a sense of purpose and how a lack of sense of purpose makes a person lost.
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Ghost – Secular Haze - Commentary Version
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There's a lyrical meaning and there's a musical, dramaturgical thought. It has a sort of carnival theme, which was not really intended to be carnivalesque or in a circus sort of
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Ghost – Jigolo Har Megiddo
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The song’s title is a wordplay using the words “Jigolo,” a man whose job is prostitution, and “Har Megiddo,” a city in Israel. The translation is roughly “Man whore of Megiddo
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Ghost – Per Aspera Ad Inferi
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The phrase per aspera ad inferi translates from Latin to through hardships to Hell or by rough to the grave.
A song that deals with human ambition. A song that depicts an old
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Ghost – Per Aspera Ad Inferi - Commentary Version
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Per Aspera Ad Inferi. There's an old Latin motto that goes “Per aspera ad astra” which means “through hardship to the stars.” It's not very uncommon that you see that, with the
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Ghost – Secular Haze
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“Secular Haze” is supposed to feel like you’re in a stormy sea, with waves. The idea was musically inspired by a saying, how someone that has been close to dying by drowning said
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Ghost – Infestissumam - Commentary Version
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Infestissumam, the song itself, the the track, Infestissumam, it's very much an introduction for the entire album. It's basically the opening scene, and whereas our concerts so far
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Ghost – Body and Blood
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Off of Ghost’s second LP, “Body and Blood” exposes the christian ritual communion in all its vulgarity
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Ghost – I’m a Marionette
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This song is a cover of the 1977 ABBA song. It’s about feeling controlled, as if you were a puppet of someone’s. Something to note, as with all of Ghost’s covers is that it has a
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Ghost – Monstrance Clock
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“Monstrance Clock” is the tenth and final track off of Ghost’s second LP, Infestissuman. This song almost always serves as Ghost’s closing song at their live performances. It is
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Ghost – Depth of Satan’s Eyes
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In “Depth of Satan’s Eyes,” the narrator is proselytizing to a group of lost souls, probably formerly religious people, about how great Satan is and how he can help ascend them
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Ghost – Ghuleh / Zombie Queen
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The song is about nostalgia, about longing for something that was in the past. And sometimes when you have a memory of something that happened in the past turns it into something
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Ghost – Jigolo Har Megiddo - Commentary Version
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Ghoul 1: Har Megiddo is like the, what's the word? The basic two words which... / Ghoul 2: It means the mountain Megiddo, which Tel Megiddo is a city in Israel. / Ghoul 1: Yeah
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Ghost – La Mantra Mori
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Ghost makes an effort to resemble a repetitive mantra in “La Mantra Mori.” A mantra consists of a string of words, a hymn, a phrase or phonetics of other nature—often repeated
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Ghost – Body and Blood - Commentary Version
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It deals with the irony of digestion and especially from a religious point of view where you actually digest the body of Christ in order to sort of do this solemn act of holiness
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Ghost – Ghuleh / Zombie Queen - Commentary Version
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Lyrically, the literal meaning is not, doesn't really, it has a deeper meaning, but the literal meaning is not as deep. It has a very classic sort of horror choice of words, words
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Ghost – Infestissumam
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The word “Infestissumam” is a Latin noun phrase, meaning “the most hostile” or “the biggest threat.” In this song, it embodies the meaning of Satan. The word is used as a noun, not
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Ghost – Monstrance Clock - Commentary Version
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Monstrance Clock... The literal meaning is traditional Satanic rituals, sort of the process of *clicks tongue* that happening. The sense morale of the song, is about people coming
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