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Dance Macabre by Ghost

TRACK

Ghost

Dance Macabre

Release date: 31st May 2018

From PrequelleTrack 63:40
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About This Track

The second single from Ghost's fourth studio album 'Prequelle', 'Dance Macabre' arrived in May 2018 after a surprise live debut earlier that month. The track topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart for two weeks in February 2019, its melodic sweep and theatrical drive finding purchase beyond the band's established following. The title invokes a medieval phenomenon tied to the bubonic plague, the same pestilence that haunts 'Prequelle' opener 'Rats'. Yet the lyrics pivot between courtship and mortality, the narrator pleading to bewitch a lover one last time whilst sensing the sting of an ending. Ghost frame desire as a ritual against the clock, the chime close to midnight marking both romantic urgency and the inexorable close. That duality, lust shadowed by finality, runs through the chorus and the verses alike. The band's knack for wrapping darkness in accessible melody holds firm, the track's surface warmth never quite masking the chill underneath.

"Dance Macabre" is a track by Ghost, from the album Prequelle, released 31st May 2018. The track is 3:40 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about Ghost.

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Ghost

Ghost

Lyrics

Dance Macabre

You'll soon be hearing the chime
Close to midnight
If I could turn back the time
I'd make all right

How can it end like this?
There's a sting in the way you kiss me
Something within your eyes said it could be the last time
'Fore it's over

I just wanna be, wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be, I wanna bewitch you all night

It keeps on giving me chills
But I know now
I feel the closer we get
To the last bow

I don't wanna end like this
But the sting in the way you kiss me
Something within your eyes says it could be the last time
'Fore it's over

I just wanna be, wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be, I wanna bewitch you all night
Just wanna be, I wanna bewitch you
One last time in the ancient rite
Just wanna be, I wanna bewitch you all night

Just wanna be, wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be, wanna bewitch you all night

Just wanna be, wanna bewitch you in the moonlight
Just wanna be, I wanna bewitch you all night
All night
Oh-woah-oh-woah-oh-woah-oh-woah

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Prequelle

3:402018
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Album
Prequelle
Prequelle
Ghost
1st June 2018
Track number
6
Release year
2018
  1. 1Ashes
    1:21
  2. 2Rats
    4:22
  3. 3Faith
    4:30
  4. 4See the Light
    4:05

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Salem Al Fakir, Tobias Forge, Vincent Pontare
    Lyricist
    Tobias Forge
    Composer
    Salem Al Fakir, Tobias Forge, Vincent Pontare
    Producer
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    Drums
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    Guitar
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    Keyboards
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    Vocals
    Cardinal Copia, Tobias Forge
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Greg Eliason
    Bass Guitar
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    Choir
    Deryn Edwards, Mark Williams
    Mastering Engineer
    Joe LaPorta
    Mixing Engineer
    Andy Wallace, Clif Norrell
    Percussion
    Tom Dalgety
    Programmer
    Tom Dalgety
    Recording Engineer
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    Synthesizer
    Steve Moore
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