If You Have Ghosts
Duration: 3:34
Track number: 1
Times played live: 290
Writers
Lyrics by: Roky Erickson
Music by: Roky Erickson
Theme
A haunting cover of Roky Erickson's 1981 psychedelic classic from his album 'The Evil One,' written during his institutionalization at a Rusk State sanatorium. The song explores embracing one's inner demons and psychological ghosts. The repeated assertion 'If you have ghosts, you have everything' suggests that acknowledging and accepting the darker, forgotten parts of oneself—trauma, memories, pain—is essential to being whole. Rather than exorcising these spectral experiences, Ghost presents them as the truest foundation of identity, transforming psychological suffering into spiritual strength.
Lyrics
If you have ghosts then you have everything
If you have ghosts then you have everything
You can say anything you want
And you can do anything you want to do
If you have ghosts then you have everything
One never does that
One never does that
You can call it surprise, there it is
And a part of it is me
One never does that
In the night I am real
In the night I am real
The moon to the left is a part of my thoughts
And a part of me is me
Forever is the wind
In the night I am real
I don't want my fangs too long
I don't want my fangs too long
The moon to the left is a part of my thoughts
And a part of me is me
Forever is the wind
I don't want my fangs too long
If you have ghosts then you have everything
If you have ghosts then you have everything
If you have ghosts then you have everything
If you have ghosts then you have everything
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