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Ghost

He Is

Release date: 13th August 2015

From Meliora
Track 5
4:13
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About This Track

Ghost's 'He Is' arrived as a promotional single in May 2015, the fifth track from their third studio album 'Meliora'. The song had been written in 2007 and was initially attempted for the band's previous album 'Infestissumam', but shelved after repeated efforts to make it fit their sound. When pre-production for 'Meliora' began, the band revisited the track and found its place. The lyrics adopt the voice of devotion to a figure of darkness and rebellion, Ghost writing 'He is insurrection, he is spite / He's the force that made me be'. The Latin refrain 'Nostro Dis Pater / Nostr' Alma Mater' frames the subject as both father and nurturing source, the song building its reverence around images of flames, the abyss, and lovers reaching toward a many-named beast. The tone is one of surrender and exaltation, the narrator's sight and being dependent on this shining, disobedient force. The track reached number 64 on the Swedish chart, their second-highest position to date at the time of release.

"He Is" is a single by Ghost, from the album Meliora, released 13th August 2015. The track is 4:13 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

He Is

We're standing here by the abyss
And the world is in flames
Two star-crossed lovers reaching out
To the beast with many names

He is, he's the shining and the light
Without whom I cannot see
And he is insurrection, he is spite
He's the force that made me be
He is Nostro Dis Pater
Nostr' Alma Mater
He is

We're hiding here inside a dream
And all our doubts are now destroyed
The guidance of the morning stars
Will lead the way into the void

He is, he's the shining and the light
Without whom I cannot see
And he is insurrection, he is spite
He's the force that made me be
He is Nostro Dis Pater
Nostr' Alma Mater
He is

He is, he's the shining and the light
Without whom I cannot see
And he is insurrection, he is spite
He's the force that made me be
He is, he's the shining and the light
Without whom I cannot see
And he is the disobedience that holds us together
He is Nostro Dis Pater
Nostr' Alma Mater
And we are falling over the precipice

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Track details

From Meliora

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Meliora
Meliora
Ghost
14th August 2015
Track number
5
Release year
2015
  1. 1Spirit
    5:15
  2. 2From the Pinnacle To the Pit
    4:03
  3. 3Cirice
    6:02
  4. 4Spöksonat
    0:56

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