Sleeping with Ghosts is the fourth album released by European alternative r… Read Full Bio ↴Sleeping with Ghosts is the fourth album released by European alternative rock band Placebo in 2003. It achieved chart success in the UK, Australia and Europe. This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.
Album meaning
The album has several songs based on a theme of relationships, whether as in relationships that end badly as in The Bitter End, power struggles in relationships (Special Needs) or the idea that some are meant to be eternal soulmates (the title track). Singer-lyricist Brian Molko told Kerrang! magazine that he was trying to 'exorcise' the 'ghosts' of the past:
I'm looking back to what's happened in my past emotional decade, trying to understand it. Trying to exorcise the ghosts and the demons of relationships past. It's the old cliché of it being therapeutic but it does work for me in that way.
Another interview has Molko explaining:
The album title's about carrying the ghosts of your relationships with you, to the point where sometimes a smell or a situation or an item of clothing they bought brings a person back. For me it's about the relationship that you have with your memories. They inhabit your dreams sometimes. There can be a lot in the future that's gonna remind you of the ghost of relationships past. So I see the album as a collection of short stories about a handful of relationships. Most of them mine. In a way writing the songs helps me to get a lot of the nasty feelings off my chest and put them in a box, and therefore have a bit more of an objective discourse with those emotions because you've done something positive with them, you've rid yourself of them.
During their concert in Sofia on 12 September 2003, the band dedicated the song Centrefolds to Johnny Cash who had died the same day, with Molko citing Cash as a key influence on the band.
Album meaning
The album has several songs based on a theme of relationships, whether as in relationships that end badly as in The Bitter End, power struggles in relationships (Special Needs) or the idea that some are meant to be eternal soulmates (the title track). Singer-lyricist Brian Molko told Kerrang! magazine that he was trying to 'exorcise' the 'ghosts' of the past:
I'm looking back to what's happened in my past emotional decade, trying to understand it. Trying to exorcise the ghosts and the demons of relationships past. It's the old cliché of it being therapeutic but it does work for me in that way.
Another interview has Molko explaining:
The album title's about carrying the ghosts of your relationships with you, to the point where sometimes a smell or a situation or an item of clothing they bought brings a person back. For me it's about the relationship that you have with your memories. They inhabit your dreams sometimes. There can be a lot in the future that's gonna remind you of the ghost of relationships past. So I see the album as a collection of short stories about a handful of relationships. Most of them mine. In a way writing the songs helps me to get a lot of the nasty feelings off my chest and put them in a box, and therefore have a bit more of an objective discourse with those emotions because you've done something positive with them, you've rid yourself of them.
During their concert in Sofia on 12 September 2003, the band dedicated the song Centrefolds to Johnny Cash who had died the same day, with Molko citing Cash as a key influence on the band.
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Sleeping with Ghosts
Placebo Lyrics
Bulletproof Cupid Everything's forgotten Everything's so rotten Why don't you …
Centrefolds Come on Balthazar I refuse to let you die Come of fallen…
English Summer Rain Always stays the same, nothing ever changes. English Summer …
I'll Be Yours I'll be your water Bathing you clean With liquid peace I'll…
Plasticine Beauty lies inside the eye of another youthful dream That do…
Protect Me from What I Want It's the disease of the age It's the disease that we…
Second Sight Walk away to save your face You never were a genius Walk…
Sleeping with Ghosts The sea's evaporating Though it comes as no surprise These c…
Something Rotten It seems we're here I Miss you something rotten The stinks a…
Special Needs Remember me when you're the one who's silver screen Remember…
The Bitter End Since we're feeling so anesthetized In our comfort zone Remi…
This Picture I hold an image of the ashtray girl As the cigarette…
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