Ghost - If You Have Ghosts

[@magnusblomqvist966]

Tobias voice!!! How many singers can top this? Not many. There has been times i cried to this. Just so fuckin' beautiful 😍❤️. I can help you with what the songs is all about. The writer Roky Ericsson was as you said schizophrenic paranoid. It's about how he with his illness was lonely and the ghosts in his head was his only friends. To him they were real. He didn't have real friends just the ones he imagined. But he was happy with them.

[@Matt-vp2bq]

This is Tobias’ acoustic masterpiece and it is fucking beautiful, the original is amazing but this hits different

[@Ram-2112]

Ironically Ghost was on a Nascar stock car in March of 2022 I have the diecast model of it lol. Also papa threw out the first pitch at a white Sox game last year too

[@Frank.E.Valley]

Roky Erikson has a real interesting history. He was in a psychedelic group called the 13th Floor Elevators, started having schizophrenic symptoms, then got arrested for ONE joint in Austin TX and was looking at a 10 year conviction. He instead went to a mental institution for 4 years. When he came out his music was much darker, and this song was on the album called "The Evil One" (from 1981).

[@GeekFurious]

Some people absorb it as one sufferer who was poorly treated saying to fellow sufferers that the "ghosts" are superior to the treatment (of the time).

[@PeaceKeeperReaction]

That’s very interesting. The history of how mental illness has been dealt with throughout history is horrific.

[@mattjohn4731]

Roky was legend 👻

[@uMe_underground]

Roky, Goodbye Sweet dreams.