"Ghosts" by YUNGBLUD

I am moved to post this song, "Ghosts" by YUNGBLUD... considering this is Pride Month, some of the lyrics echo issues many of us recall from our lives.

And I am so knocked out by this energetic, soaring live version (filmed at Hansa Studios, the sacred ground where Bowie created his "Heroes" album) that builds to, dare I say, a classic Maslowian peak experience.

 

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh,
I see the distant smoke
Across the water way
I’d swim a thousand miles
Just to hear you say
The words that never come
When you need them most
To dry your eyes out
Is it your mothers tongue
Or your fathers ghosts
Remember sticks and stones
And how they broke your bones
Pain is how you learn
And boy you learned a lot
When they hit you in the face
And you begged them all to stop
Until you rose up again
And you tried your best to surrender
Bowed down your head
Then you looked up to the sky and said
My god, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
Wanna stay here forever
My god, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
You’re my gateway to heaven
From underneath the dust
You see the curtain call
Can’t bear to watch another generation stall
To the hands of greed
That will take it all
And cut your heart out
See the face in the shadow
Just a thread in the seams
We’ll be ghosts by tomorrow
Just a day in a dream
But you’ll rise up again
And you’ll fight against the surrender
My friends don’t wait
Just look up to the sky and say
My god, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
Wanna stay here forever
My god, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
You’re my gateway to heaven
My god, what a beautiful scene

Now I know what you mean
Wanna stay here forever
My god, what a beautiful scene
Now I know what you mean
You’re my gateway to heaven
Alright

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