If We Were Ghosts Lyrics
If we were ghosts
You could see inside of me, right into my soul
To see what makes me up or focus on the holes
I'd be the world around the sun
Hopelessly spinning 'round you, yeah
Turning every leaf and stone
But that's not the way it goes
[Chorus]
I have to wait 'til I get to the other side
Just to see you, just to see you
I have to wait 'til I get to the other side
'Cause I never, never got to say goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye
[Verse 2]
If we were ghosts
Floating high above the world, little would they know
That to end is to begin least that's what I hope
That for a moment I could be
Something a bit more complete, yeah
But we never keep what makes us whole
And that's just the way it goes
[Chorus]
I have to wait 'til I get to the other side
Just to see you, just to see you
I have to wait 'til I get to the other side
'Cause I never, never got to say goodbye
And I lament with every breath I take
The gentle sadness flows through everything
The gentle sadness flows through everything
[Chorus]
I have to wait 'til I get to the other side
Just to see you, just to see you
I have to wait 'til I get to the other side
'Cause I never, never got to say goodbye
[Outro]
(I never said) Goodbye
(I never said) Goodbye
(I never said) Goodbye
(I never said) Goodbye
About
The 12th and final track on Of Mice & Men’s fifth studio album Defy, dedicated to Linkin Park’s late lead singer Chester Bennington.
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Of Mice & Men frontman Aaron Pauley shared with Alternative Press:
[It’s] all about dealing with the feelings of losing somebody. A huge inspiration for writing the lyrics to this song is thinking about Chester and just thinking about other people who I’ve lost in my life over the last couple of years. The unfortunate reality of life is the older you get, the more people you lose. Loss is such a complex feeling, complex experience and a complex emotion that it encompasses a lot of different things. That was, if anything, our tribute to Chester and our tribute to the people we’ve lost along the way.
- 1.Defy
- 2.Instincts
- 3.Back to Me
- 4.Sunflower
- 5.Unbreakable
- 6.Vertigo
- 7.Money
- 10.Warzone
- 11.Forever YDG’n
- 12.If We Were Ghosts
