“For me, ‘Ghosts Again’ just captures this perfect balance of melancholy and joy,” said the frontman. Dave Gahan about the song, he and his bandmate and Martin Gore They added, “It’s not often that we record a song that I just don’t understand. Tired of listening, I’m excited to be able to share it.”
With lyrics detailing a mood of “wasted feelings, broken meanings… a place to hide the tears we cry”, ‘Ghosts Again’ speaks to the afterlife themes driving the new album, which have become even more frequent after the death of the bandmate Andy Fletcher last year.
Speaking to the NME portal, Gahan noted that although work on “Memento Mori” began before Fletcher’s death, the latter did not record any material.
“He never heard any of it, which is really sad to me because there are songs on this record where I know he’d say, ‘This is the best we’ve had in years.’ I can hear his voice,” he said. “I can also hear him say, ‘Do all songs have to be about death?!’”
Source: Ambito
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