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Ghost – Darkness at the Heart of My Love
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“Darkness at the Heart of my Love” is a powerful ballad, such as Ghost’s “He Is” or “Life Eternal.” The song talks about indoctrination and trusting people who do not have the best
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Nightwish – Ghost Love Score
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[Verse 1] / We used to swim the same moonlight waters / Oceans away from the wakeful day / [Chorus] / (My fall will...) / My fall will be for you / My love will be in you / If you
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Ghost – Respite on the Spitalfields
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[Verse] / We're here in the after of a murderous crafter, the past / Is spun like a yarn and mangled / With flesh and blood and bones, I wonder / Did no one hear the distant
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Ghost – Imperium
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The first track on Ghost’s fifth album, Impera. “Imperium” serves as the lead-in to “Kaisarion,” establishing a musical motif that returns at the end of the album in the song “
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Ghost – If You Have Ghosts
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“If You Have Ghost,” lead single and title track of Ghost’s first EP, If You Have Ghost, is a cover of a Roky Erickson song, as a tribute to him by the band.
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Tiger Army – Through the Darkness
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[Verse 1] / Under dark waters the light glows / In the eyes of cats at night it shows / All pain and sorrow left behind / And through the darkness, my love shines / [Verse 2] / A
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Ghost – Griftwood
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“Griftwood” shows an arena rock aesthetic, hiding his lyrical theme. The song talks about fake-preachers that use religion as a way to get richer. He has talked about it to Metal
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Benson Boone – GHOST TOWN
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[Verse 1] / You fill me up 'til you're empty / I took too much and you let me / We've been down all these roads before / And what we found don't live there anymore / [Pre-Chorus
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Ghost – Spillways
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Impera’s third track, “Spillways” is a dancing track, hardly inspired by a lot of the 80s pieces. Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song:
This is an elegy for the darkness that
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Ghost – Twenties
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The eighth track on Ghost’s fifth album, “Impera”. Tobias Forge previously told Kerrang! Magazine that Ghost’s new single Twenties has a vibe of “Slayer meets some sort of Missy
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Lostboycrow – Love Won't Sleep
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[Verse 1] / Put out these fires in my headspace / Cause I'm wide awake / Why am I awake? / The city sits below and we take shots at the moon / I wanna give it to you / (I wanna
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Ghost – Call Me Little Sunshine
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Second single from Ghost’s fifth album Impera. The song has references to Aleister Crowley, including the album cover artwork, which takes inspiration from a famous photo
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Kate Rusby – Ghost
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[Verse 1] / Oh dear, my heart is taken / From my chest / Oh dear, my heart is taken / I can never rest / And by the moon / I can feel your heart beating / By the moon / I can hear
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PASTEL GHOST – Dark Beach
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[Verse 1] / Laying on a dark beach / Pulsing waves cover me / Flowers bloom on the sea / Silver sand underneath / [Chorus] / Talk to me as I am sleeping / Hold me while I'm
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SYML – Where's My Love
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“Where’s My Love” is the first song Brian Fennel wrote for SYML:
I wrote it on a stereotypical Seattle day. It was very rainy and I didn’t necessarily feel lonely, but I realised
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Ghost Atlas – Sacred Organs
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[Intro: Jesse Cash] / Born into half of a body, desperate to be realigned / Eight limbs, two tongues, redefining false design / Separation magnetizing, a reunion of golden souls
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Ghost – Bite of Passage
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Slipknot – Snuff
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“Snuff” is a relatively slow song, as compared to the majority of other songs on the All Hope Is Gone. The acoustic dark song tells the story of a man who falls in love and
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Hozier – Almost (Sweet Music)
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Hozier pays homage to some of the greatest jazz musicians who came before him by referencing them and their song titles throughout the lyrics. A playlist of the songs referenced
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Beware of Darkness – Heart Attack
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Come on, like anybody cares your mother died / Let me tell the world to stop and have a universal cry / (Come and step right over my dead body) / Come on, like I could give a fuck
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Saint Deamon – Ghost
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Verse 1 / I'm always here, only my voice is what you hear / I tried to touch / Your soul is the only thing i want / Will I be near you? / Will there come a time, for you, for me
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Bring Me The Horizon – Can You Feel My Heart
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“Can You Feel My Heart” is the opening track and third single (fourth in the US) from Bring Me The Horizon’s fourth studio album Sempiternal. The song leads with Oliver Sykes
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Fit for an Autopsy – Mirrors
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[Intro] / (I saw your ghost in my reflection / I saw a darkness in the heart / I saw a shred of hope / I saw the world tear it apart / Our world is cold and empty) / [Chorus] / I
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Kirk Franklin – I Smile
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Kirk Franklin has experienced much success in urban contemporary gospel music. For his twelfth studio album, Hello Fear, Franklin released this song as the first single. Franklin
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Coldplay – A Sky Full of Stars
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One of Coldplay’s most hyped tracks ever, described by attendees of Coldplay’s secret Ghost Stories shows as “wonderfully produced” and “upbeat, happy, makes you want to stand up
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Ghost – Watcher in the Sky
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Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song: “It enthusiastically explains how we can utilize science to make the world smaller and to reverse scientific things. Basically a flattened
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5 Seconds of Summer – Teeth
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“Teeth,” a bass-heavy track about the dark highs and lows of a relationship, is the second single released from 5SOS' fourth album, CALM, preceded by “Easier”. The track was
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Colbie Caillat – When the Darkness Comes
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[Verse 1] / Underneath the echoes / Buried in the shadows / There you were / Drawn into your mystery / I was just beginning / To see your ghost / But you must know / [Chorus] / I'
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Ghost – Dominion
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Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song: “A segue, where we go outside the city to this vast landscape – meadows and all that, so you see another part of the empire. It’s meant to
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Carnifex – Dark Heart Ceremony
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Leave this world to die on its knees / On its knees / Rest in pain / Every song is a room where I watch myself bleed / Ghosts of lost love / Dreams of death just because / Leaving
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David Scott (Ft. Julia Church) – Aurora
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My jaded heart was held by you / You changed the shape of my youth / Numb to the hooks that you've pierced through my skin / I have loved you with all of my heart / Your words
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FKA twigs – killer
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“killer” was first previewed on FKA twigs' TikTok on June 4th, 2022, where she’s seen kissing Elite actor Arón Piper for the music video released on July 20th, 2022.
The song
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Ghost – Hunter's Moon
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The first single from Ghost’s fifth studio album, Impera, was also the first released song from the soundtrack of Halloween Kills, in which Michael Myers is hunted down by an angry
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Of The Wand & The Moon – A Pyre of Black Sunflowers
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I saw a pyre of black sunflowers / Trapped in a swarm of moths / And swallows crying heimve / heimat / Hovering on the storm / Soaring above the golden corn / So gracefully / And
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Light Asylum – Heart of Dust
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[Verse 1] / Face down in the river, my love / Face down in the river, my love / 'Cause I have a heart of dust / 'Cause I have a heart of dust / 'Cause I have a heart of dust / Let'
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Kendrick Lamar, Summer Walker & Ghostface Killah – Purple Hearts
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“Purple Hearts” is the final track on the first disc and the ninth track overall from Kendrick Lamar’s fifth and final studio album with Top Dawg Entertainment, Mr. Morale & The
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Taylor Swift (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Bad Blood (Remix)
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On May 17, 2015, Taylor Swift debuted her “Bad Blood” video at the Billboard Music Awards.
The premiere was highly anticipated and featured a slew of notable actors and performers
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Indigo Girls – Ghost
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“Ghost” was written about an unrequited love that haunts the speaker. Songwriter Emily Sailers explained:
When I was writing ‘Ghost,’ I was thinking about the experience of never
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