Ghosts
Bloody Knees Lyrics


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It's getting late
halloween

You were nowhere to be seen
and like the leaves that left their trees
you are nowhere without me

Tonight I'll wear
the face of death
and I'm coming and I will find you
I will find you
I will find

Tonight I'll wear the face of death
and I'm coming and I will find

So long, all hallowes eve.

Still you're nowhere to be seen
like a knife stabbed in my guts
...

Tonight I'll wear the face of death
and im coming and I will find you
and when I do
I will haunt you and when i do
I will haunt

Like a ghost straight through your

I'm coming and I will haunt
you
I will haunt

Like a ghost straight through your.




I'm coming and I will haunt
I'm coming and I will find you

Overall Meaning

The song "Ghosts" by the band Bloody Knees is a hauntingly beautiful ode to lost love and the desperate search to find it again. The opening lines "It's getting late, Halloween" set the eerie tone and the imagery of the leaves falling off the trees symbolizing lost love is powerful. The opening lines are about being left behind and feeling abandoned, a feeling that is amplified on Halloween when ghosts are believed to roam the earth. The singer is clearly desperate to find their lost love, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to find them.


The singer then talks about wearing the "face of death" which could represent the pain and graveness of lost love, or Halloween mask. The singer is coming to find their lost love and won't rest until they do. They talk about haunting their lost love like a ghost and coming straight through them. This image is incredibly strong and adds to the overall eerie and ominous atmosphere of the song.


This song ultimately is about a desperate search for love, even when it is lost. The use of the Halloween imagery and ghost metaphors add to the feeling of being lost and haunted, which makes for a very powerful and beautiful song.


Line by Line Meaning

It's getting late
The night is progressing


You were nowhere to be seen
You were absent, not present as expected


and like the leaves that left their trees
Similar to leaves falling from trees in the fall season


you are nowhere without me
You are dependent on me for presence or significance


Tonight I'll wear
This evening, I intend to adorn


the face of death
A deathly appearance


and I'm coming and I will find you
I will search for you and approach


I will find you
I shall locate you


I will find
I will discover


So long, all hallowes eve.
Farewell, Halloween


Still you're nowhere to be seen
You are undetected, not visible


like a knife stabbed in my guts
Comparable to a sharp object penetrating my insides


Tonight I'll wear the face of death
This evening, I plan to wear a deathly appearance


and im coming and I will find you
I am approaching and I shall locate you


and when I do
Once I achieve that


I will haunt you and when i do
I shall visit and disturb you


I will haunt
I will cause distress


Like a ghost straight through your
Similar to an apparition passing through you


I'm coming and I will haunt you
I am approaching and I will disturb you


I'm coming and I will find you
I am approaching and I shall locate you




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Charles Bullghost

There's a forgotten tragedy took place many decades after the wounded knee massacre. Probably around the decade before or during the dust bowl area of the 1930s. On the crow creek sioux Indian reservation SD northwest of the town stephan. A large encampment of twenty or thirty hunkpati Dakota sioux people were living on Cheney rush, a hilly prairie land country along the Missouri River. When a large party of white civilians came with guns and rifles to blame the Dakota sioux Indian for horse thievery. They started to kill everyone there and buried the dead bodies on top of a hill. Some Dakota sioux elders were young children at the time of the tragedy unfolded there. They saw an witness the tragedy unfolded there will hiding a safe distance away. Many years later they told the story of the tragedy at the Cheney rush massacre. It's also the most huanted place on the reservation. There's no memorial site there because of the forgotten Dakota sioux tragedy at the Cheney rush massacre.

daylon boender

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Brian Reuschling

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Daryl VONBISMARK

I think it should've been noted that the masacre at wounded knee was the cold blooded murder of mostly unarmed old men women & children.

Darcy Rose Wilson

I just learned of this. I'm 37. I'm not impressed with the way we were taught in school. I wish they would have taught us what really happened and how cruel they really were 😞

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I’m learning about how they did the Sioux. Bruh , these was some EVILLL creatures

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BCB47

I have been to the pine ridge Indian reservation where a grandson or great grandson of a wound knee victim lived he told me and a group of kids of the story how white man thought it was a war dance and were ready to fight but it was just to prayer for the white man to leave.

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