Happy #TuneTuesday Fediverse! With today's theme of #GhostStorySongs, one epic track immediately springs comes to mind.
A sweeping, intensely emotional, downright heavy song about tragic love, by none other than Nightwish.
This particular live version of Ghost Love Score (from Wacken 2013) never fails to give me chills during its crescendo. And Floor Jansen's vocals elevate this thing to the stratosphere.
"Underneath the moonlight of old Hungarian skies
Buried in the blood drenched Earth, these barren lands of ice
She was an evil woman with an evil old soul
And piercing eyes emotionless, a heart so black and cold"
"A Forest"
Suddenly I stop
But I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
All alone
The girl was never there
It's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
Again and again and again and again
"Lullaby"
And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning I will wake up
In the shivering cold
The spiderman is always hungry
Today's #TuneTuesday theme is a ghost story or campfire tale.
Tom Waits - Black wings
Is this song about a ghost? Or a legend? It certainly feels like a campfire tale.
"When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger
And it's sharp enough to draw blood from a stone
He rides through your dreams on a coach and horses
And the fenceposts in the moonlight look like bones" #GhostStorySongs
Obviously it has to be Jackson for #TuneTuesday's #GhostStorySongs because he has more than a few ghost, zombie and monster filled MVs and the man is a master of visual storytelling. (Also swoooon)