Ghost Under Rocks

I think this song has to do with someone who lost their spouse.

For the line "ghosts under rocks" I take rocks to mean tombstones. For me it conjures up the image of someone clinging to a "ghost under a rock", or lost loved one.

I love the line about "soaking wet dreams". I take this to be a double entendre to include the sexual definition of wet dreams. I like them described as "soaking". These lines to me conjure up the vision of someone who who loved their spouse and then lost them. Now their dreams of that person have gone dry and all they have to remember that person by are the babies they had together, asking them "why why why?" in grief.

this lyrics sounds more correctly

When every little thing You own is looking back At you and starts to mean Less than it ever did

On every On every inch of stone Skin and cloth Made to leave you

Here you are, you are breathing life in a Ghost under rocks like notes found In pocket coats of your father's Lost and forgotten

All, all, all your soaking wet dreams You've spent them You have gone and dreamt them Dry, now you ask your babies why, why, why

We're gripping seats and plots Pleading to honored lots To give us this much more Safe from a cutting shear

On every On every inch of stone Skin and cloth Made to leave you

Here you are, you are breathing life in a Ghosts under rocks like notes found In pocket coats of your father's Lost and forgotten

All, all, all your soaking wet dreams You've spent them You have gone and dreamt them Dry, now you ask your babies why, why, why, why

Well, if you can't decide Your move, you either weep or moan You waste a year to mull this through Anyway you wanted to

Oh, but you could have had Turn it into broken good Taken off the side of it A cut up and a parasol

A pair of them you found along And maybe never to again As if it never was at all Lifting you up as an offer Up as an offer

Here you are, you are breathing life in a Ghost under rocks like notes found In pocket coats of your fathers Lost and forgotten

All, all, all your soaking wet dreams You've spent them You have gone and dreamt them Dry, Now you ask your babies why, why, why, why

btw, can anyone decipher the female background vocals on the verse before the last chorus?

That is Allie singing something like the following:

Make sure, you have all your stuff Before you leave and he said "Goodnight, I'll miss you so much" "Goodnight, goodbye" repeat

You can hear these lines clearer in an earlier remix of Ghost by Andrew Maury at about 3:00 into the recording. The copy is here: http://www.andrewmaury.net/remix/ghost.html . This is taken from the EP version of Ghost and Andrew draws the background vocals out for added effect. More interesting than Allie's vocals are the male vocals you hear alongside saying something like "Oh my clown suit". Those vocals belong to John Pike as he sang background vocals.

My favorite line from Ghost is "...breathing life into ghosts under rocks like notes found in pocket coats of your fathers". So much possibility in that line. There is no doubt that this song is about relationships -- perhaps a failing one -- but I'd guess that it is based on a piece of fiction like Each Year. The song has nothing to do with John's untimely death.

This song always reminds me of Napoleon Bonaparte for some reason. Perhaps just going along with that rise and fall of dreaming, achieving it and falling back down.

The chorus is:

Here you are, you are breathing life into ghosts under rocks Like notes found in pocketcoats of your father's Lost and forgotten

I think this song is about John Ryan Pike's death.

thelightsblur, i would think that too but this song is on the ep, which was recorded before his death, and he plays drums on the ep version of this song.

Ahh, you do have a good point! I forgot about that. It's the last song, correct?

That's really creepy, though. It talks about soaking wet dreams, breathing life into ghosts under rocks, and then it says 'Well if you can't decide whether to weep or moan and take a whole year to mull this through.."

They all relate to his death!

He was found dead in about 7 feet of water off the coast, i believe. Which is why it makes these lyrics so eerie.

Ahh, you do have a good point! I forgot about that. It's the last song, correct?