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If You Have Ghosts

If You Have Ghost
2013

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
Musicians
Tobias Forge

Tobias Forge

Vocals

Simon Söderberg

Simon Söderberg

Lead guitar

Martin Persner

Martin Persner

Rhythm guitar

Mauro Rubino

Mauro Rubino

Keyboards

Linton Rubino

Linton Rubino

Bass

Nameless Ghoul

Nameless Ghoul

Drums

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