Ghost Of Perdition Lyrics - Ghost Reveries - 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" 

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 it's call 

In his arms she'd fall 

Mother light received 

And a faithful servant's free 

In time the hissing of her sanity 

Faded out her voice and soiled her name 

And like 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 hoards 

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