Weekly Shinedown - Song Fourteen - Through The Ghost!

Hey There!

I have finally moved on from Monday 1st September 2014, where I discovered the greatest amount of new Shinedown songs. But I hadn't moved on ver far before I discovered yet another new Shinedown song!

I had just about survived my first week back at school for the year, and every day of the week, I had been listening to Shinedown song playlist on my Spotify using my new iPhone 4S. Just as the weekend began, on Friday, I decided to go check out Shinedown's YouTube channel. I had never seem any of their music videos before, but hey were all in chronological order. This meant that the first one that I came across was Through The Ghost.

It had been uploaded on 27th March 2014, which was only four days after my Shinedown journey began. I clicked on the video to watch it, and I absolutely loved watching it!

I liked the fact that the video had such a wintery feeling to it. The main features were the bare trees that had lost all of their leaves, the falling snow, and the silhouette figures of the Shinedown members. The video really made me excited for the following winter to come, but the music also had a part to play too.

The chiming of the timpani during the song really contributed to the overall winter feeling of this song. It also had a very Christmassy feeling to it because it reminded me of Christmas, due to the chiming resembling Santa's sleigh bells.

More than anything, this song reminded me of when I went to the Manchester Christmas Markets back in December 2013 with my church. It was of course my Uncle Peter and Auntie Jen that took me there, so clearly this song was perfect for the situation.

We actually wen track to the Manchester Christmas Markets the following year, on Saturday 22nd November 2014. However, this time, instead of going in my Uncle Peter's Volvo, we went on the train. Since Through The Ghost always makes me think of the Manchester Christmas Markets, I did just have to listen to this song many times on my train journey there, just to get a complete wintry feel.

Now everytime I listen to this song, it always reminds me of the amazing winter that I had, and what great trips my family were able to take me on. The song does give me hope that I will be able to return to the Manchester Christmas Markets again this year!

Furthermore, on my journeys to school, I always like to listen to at least one song from my Shinedown Spotify playlist. However, I am only allowed to listen to it on shuffle mode on my phone, which means that it could be just about any Shinedown song that plays. Yet between September and December, the song that I hoped would randomly be selected the most was Through The Ghost, as it really got me into an amazing winter feeling.

I also remember sometime in September 2014, I had the first line of these lyrics in my head, but I couldn't place it to a song. So I even asked my friend Sam in school "Do you know a song that starts off with "Speak of the devil, look who just walked into the room?" But unfortunately, after racking our brains for ages, we were't able to come to any conclusions, so I ha to type the lyrics into my phone, and sure enough, Through The Ghost was the first result that came up, and answered all of my questions.

This song is an absolutely lovely song to listen to, and even to sing, yet when I had a first glance at the guitar chords, they just seemed way too advanced for me, with chords such as Cadd9, D4 and Em7. But maybe our church guitarist, Kev, could play all of these really challenging Shinedown songs, because he is such an amazing guitarist that can play almost anything!

Be sure to leave comments below of some of your favourite Shinedown songs, and what memories they give yo you when you re-listen to them again!

I'll see you all next Thursday!

Lois xx

P.S. I'll leave the lyrics to Through The Ghost below incase you're interested!

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 just
A city of dust
Covering both of us

Did you hide yourself away?
I can't see you anymore
Did you eclipse another day?
I used to wake up to the colour of your soul

Did you hide yourself away?
Are you living through the ghost?
Did you finally find a place
Above the shadows so the world will never know?
The world will never know you like I do

So many silent sorrows
You never hear from again
And now that you've lost tomorrow
Is yesterday still a friend?

All the bridges we built were burned
Not a single lesson was learned
Everything that mattered is just
A city of dust
Covering both of us

Did you hide yourself away?
I can't see you anymore
Did you eclipse another day?
I used to wake up to the colour of your soul

Did you hide yourself away?
Are you living through the ghost?
Did you finally find a place
Above the shadows so the world will never know?
The world will never know you like I do

Like I still do

Did you hide yourself away?
I can't see you anymore
Did you eclipse another day?
I used to wake up to the colour of your soul

Did you hide yourself away?
Are you living through the ghost?
Did you finally find a place
Above the shadows so the world will never know?
The world will never know you...