BoyWithUke “Ghost” Official Lyrics & Meaning | Genius Verified — Transcript

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1. 0:00so this is actually one of the first of
2. 0:02many songs that I've made without using
3. 0:04the ukulele for me that just means first
4. 0:07of all change and then growth I didn't
5. 0:09want to be stuck making ukulele songs
6. 0:12all the time cuz I feel like after a
7. 0:14certain point it just gets stale and I
8. 0:15wanted to challenge myself experiment
9. 0:18and that's like I think in essence what
10. 0:19music is all
11. 0:22[Music]
12. 0:26about so ghost has a title uh I think
13. 0:29ghost can represent multiple different
14. 0:31things I mean the most obvious thing is
15. 0:33getting ghosted which is not always a
16. 0:35bad thing but I also think ghost can be
17. 0:38a person or even a relationship where
18. 0:40you think that something is there
19. 0:42between two people but there isn't I
20. 0:44don't know if it exists you don't know
21. 0:46if ghosts exist ghosts are also a little
22. 0:49bit
23. 0:50scary I should have told you when I had
24. 0:54the
25. 0:56chance Lost In The Memories We don't
26. 1:00have so the hook was written as a sort
27. 1:03of response to one of my favorite songs
28. 1:06of last year maybe two years ago that
29. 1:07habit by Steve Lacy good song I wish I
30. 1:10knew you wanted me the hook for this
31. 1:12song is I should have told you when I
32. 1:14had the chance I want see to hold you
33. 1:18and hope
34. 1:22this you f like a ghost in my head the
35. 1:26imagery was like slow dancing with this
36. 1:28princess and then they're like like they
37. 1:30dissipate into see the air I think
38. 1:32that's like symbolic of a relationship
39. 1:34you know the relationship Fades away or
40. 1:36maybe they fade away from your life
41. 1:38maybe they ghosted
42. 1:41you I've been from London to Aberdine
43. 1:44inside a cop and from inside a private
44. 1:46limousine I have not been to Aberdine
45. 1:48but I have been to London the only
46. 1:49reason I wrote that line was uh because
47. 1:51of the second line which is from inside
48. 1:53of Koop and from inside a private
49. 1:54limousine I've not been in either but I
50. 1:57wanted to rhyme limousine with Aberdine
51. 1:59because I like the way those syllables
52. 2:01sound they roll off the tongue really
53. 2:03pleasantly it's like limousine Aberdine
54. 2:06abine do you think it really matters if
55. 2:09a wear designer cuz I don't if I don't
56. 2:11have a what's the point of Finer Things
57. 2:13this is a bit more personal actually
58. 2:15it's sort of my my view on designer
59. 2:17clothing or like expensive clothing in
60. 2:18general at least for me there's no point
61. 2:20in wearing stuff like that especially if
62. 2:23there's no one to share it with I'm ex
63. 2:25hello like Augustine but I confess I
64. 2:27haven't been the best internally so St
65. 2:30Augustine is a saint I think in
66. 2:32Christianity he I think popular
67. 2:34popularized or created the Latin saying
68. 2:37creatio ex niilo which means creation
69. 2:41out of nothing I don't want to seem too
70. 2:42narcissistic I feel like that's sort of
71. 2:44how my career sort of started sort like
72. 2:47out of nothing I keep seeing two moons
73. 2:50in My Dreams Can you tell me what they
74. 2:52really mean I had a song called Two
75. 2:54Moons about a dream I had where I was
76. 2:55lost in the woods and I feel like I'm
77. 2:57still lost which is okay it's okay okay
78. 3:00to be
79. 3:01lost can you catch me when I fall I'm in
80. 3:05love with the
81. 3:07idea of who you
82. 3:12are I try to look the other way but I'm
83. 3:16lying to myself I never wanted it to end
84. 3:22when I make songs I lay it heavily but
85. 3:24for this bridge I wanted to take
86. 3:26everything out so it's just I think
87. 3:27there's synths and then there's my
88. 3:29vocals and there's just one line and
89. 3:31it's a take I did and I really test
90. 3:34myself there's some scratchiness in
91. 3:36there but the type of scratchiness that
92. 3:37I really I like scratches my brain it
93. 3:40Bridges the two sections together the
94. 3:43slow Moody one into the high paced
95. 3:45almost chase scene like it's bridged
96. 3:47together by the the
97. 3:50vocals I had no other option I had to
98. 3:54find a way to leave it for you walked in
99. 3:56at the end the chase was all I really
100. 3:58wanted in my head the imagery was okay
101. 4:01so this person that you you you adore
102. 4:03let's say for example the the ghost
103. 4:05enter the room and it's like holy crap
104. 4:07and in my head it's like a chase scene
105. 4:09it's like you're running away and
106. 4:10they're chasing you it's like a ghost
107. 4:12who but it's too late for that you give
108. 4:15hard attacks and I find it hard to sleep
109. 4:19cuz I'm afraid of ghosts and I can hear
110. 4:21you talking so Perpetual you show no
111. 4:23sign of stopping it's too late for that
112. 4:26can't you understand I do find it hard
113. 4:28to sleep but not because of ghosts but
114. 4:30when I was younger I used to be
115. 4:32terrified of ghosts and all things
116. 4:34Supernatural very scared of the dark now
117. 4:37those two things I'm not really scared
118. 4:39of ghosts cuz ghosts are just us but
119. 4:42dead but I still find it hard to
120. 4:45sleep you could at least just make it
121. 4:48easy you know I hate being so
122. 4:51needy got my attention out at leash and
123. 4:53I don't want it back unintentionally
124. 4:55acting creepy so I have been told I I
125. 4:58can be weird and offputting it's
126. 5:00unintentional it's just who I am and I
127. 5:02don't want to be unintentionally creepy
128. 5:05one of my biggest insecurities is coming
129. 5:07off as needy or codependent which I'm
130. 5:10not in front of her but she can't see me
131. 5:13I think she thinks I'm on the Spectrum
132. 5:16I'm pretty sure she wants to
133. 5:18leave and I don't blame her the ending
134. 5:21of the outro the vers is I wanted to add
135. 5:24some sort of plot twist so it was like
136. 5:25this ghost that I thought was chasing me
137. 5:27turns out I was I was the ghost not sure
138. 5:30what that means yet I'm sure someone
139. 5:32will find meaning in that in the
140. 5:33background vocals in that part
141. 5:35specifically if you listen you hear like
142. 5:36I kind of just spell it out I say I was
143. 5:39the ghost it's been
144. 5:42me I think she thinks I'm on the
145. 5:45Spectrum I'm pretty sure she wants to
146. 5:47leave and I don't blame her so that was
147. 5:48actually written off of based off of
148. 5:51real experiences I've had so a few
149. 5:53months ago I was going on some dates and
150. 5:55there were two people in particular that
151. 5:57they genuinely thought I was autistic
152. 5:59sick first of all I thought that would
153. 6:01explain a lot I'm not diagnosed in
154. 6:03autism but I I do think I'm neurode
155. 6:06Divergent in a way my partner now
156. 6:08definitely still thinks I'm weird maybe
157. 6:10not off-putting though onp putting