Shinedown: Through the Ghost Meaning

Song Released: 2012

Through the Ghost Lyrics

Through the Ghost

By Shinedown

Speak of the devil
Look who just walked into the room
The guilted and faded
Notion of someone I once knew.

All the perfect moments are wrong
All the precious pieces are gone
Everything that mattered is...

1. 1TOP RATED

   #1 top rated interpretation:
   anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Sep 28th 2015 !⃝

   I just saw them in concert recently, and Brent said this song was about himself. He said this song had so much meaning for him that until recently he couldn't even sing it live. He said that he wrote it during the time he was not living so healthy and it was like looking in the mirror at a stranger. I love this song. I think we all have an idea of what others think of us and it's usually very different than how we see ourselves. We watch our lives go by like watching a movie and sometimes we realize we are the villain in our own story.

2. 2TOP RATED

   #2 top rated interpretation:
   anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Feb 6th 2013 !⃝

   NO to the last post...you're thinking of "For my Sake". The person he is talking about about is his former corrupted self. He has broken off all ties with his former life. No one knows a person like they know themselves

3. 3TOP RATED

   #3 top rated interpretation:
   anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Jun 21st 2012 !⃝

   I believe this song is talking about how someone that they [the band/Brent] changed so much, and it's like they don't know they anymore. It's saying that that change destroyed the past relationship and it will never be the same for either of them ("everything that mattered is just a city of dust covering both of us"). It's pretty much talking about the change in people we used to know, and how they're like a different person to us after that
4. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Oct 5th 2020 !⃝

   I think he was talking about living in a hard time, and I think this song is about his mom also because I think that something happened to her and he feels like it impacted him as a person, what with being in a harsh place and having a hard time fighting that hard place
5. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Aug 8th 2018 !⃝

   To me it sounds like he’s talking to someone who died (suicide) especially when he says the world will never know you like I do. If you think about it when someone commits suicide the world judges them but there’s always someone who understands
6. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Aug 31st 2015 !⃝

   My idea about this is someone that the artist or the band made it for someone that's lost someone, I've listenened to it many times. It's always made me think about this one girl that was a friend and that moved away to Germany and I haven't been able to talk to her since. This song gives a vibe to me of how some people just fade away and disappear and how no one else will be able to share the moment like you did with a certain person
7. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Sep 19th 2013 !⃝

   I actually have an interpretation of this song, so, what the heck. I believe this song is about someone the artist once knew that committed suicide, for example, a lover. Consider the lyrics, "a city of dust" could well mean the nothingness considering dust could easily be considered ashes. Not only that, but when he states "did you finally find a place above the shadows so the world will never know, the world will never know you like a do" somewhat reflecting upon the fact that they've found a place "above the shadows" which could be interpreted as 'shadows' for corruption. So perhaps they found a place in 'heaven', or wherever they should be, away from the darkness and corruption of society they had been avoiding. And, continuing on, the lines "And now that you've lost tomorrow, is yesterday still a friend?" somewhat states of death if you think about it. When someone loses tomorrow, they are no longer there to 'have' it. So, my conclusion is that this song is about someone the artist knew that has committed suicide, someone close to the artist. I could probably drag all the lyrics into this interpretation, but that would be rather long and drawn out so have a good day.

Latest Articles

• 
  A new era for Millennial favorite, Linkin Park
• 
  Anime to watch for the soundtracks… and other reasons you’re undateable
• 
  Dolly, we need you
• 
  The Stranger Things Effect: How new media is drawing Gen Z and Alpha's attention to aging media
• 
  The most underrated soundtrack of the early 2000s
• 
  Buy the Soundtrack, Skip the Movie: Brainscan (1994)