Ghost of Perdition - Opeth

Ghost of Mother

Lingering death

Ghost on Mother’s bed

Black strands on the pillow

Contour of her health

Twisted face upon the head

Ghost of perdition

Stuck in her chest

A warning no one read

Tragic friendship

Called inside the fog

Pouring venom brew deceiving

Devil cracked the earthly shell

Foretold she was the one

Blew hope into the room and said:

«You have to live before you die young»

Devil cracked the earthly shell

Foretold she was the one

Blew hope into the room and said:

«You have to live before you die young»

Holding her down

Channeling darkness

Hemlock for the Gods

Fading resistance

Draining the weakness

Penetrating inner light

Road into the dark unaware

Winding ever higher

Darkness by her side

Spoke and passed her by

Dedicated hunter

Waits to pull us under

Rose up to its call

In his arms she’d fall

Mother light received

A faithful servant’s free

In time the hissing of her sanity

Faded out her voice and soiled her name

Like the marked pages in a diary

Everything seemed clean that is unstained

The incoherent talk of ordinary days

Why would we really need to live?

Decide what is clear and what’s within a haze

What you should take and what to give

Ghost of perdition

A saint’s premonition’s unclear

Keeper of holy hordes

Keeper of holy whores

To see a beloved son

In despair of what’s to come

If one cut the source of the flow

And everything would change

Would conviction fall

In the shadow of the righteous

The phantasm of your mind

Might be calling you to go

Defying the forgotten morals

Where the victim is the prey