Dorothy ∞ · @dolusglitz
3rd Apr 2015 from TwitLonger
Ghost Town Guessing
Whenever Adam talks about his upcoming album, The Original High, he says that the songs will ’mean different things to different people’, they are ’open to interpretation’ and most importantly, their lyrics are ’thought provoking’.
Would have never thought that a song would reach that high level where it can be thought provoking without even being released – Ghost Town managed to get there.
I’m so excited for this song that I can’t even express. The gears in my brain are constantly turning, bombing me with ideas – would rather say guesses – about the possible theme of the song, things like that. So, I’ve decided to write these thoughts and also share them before the release date because it’s going to be interesting to compare these lines to those I would say after April 21st.
Remember when I woke up to a kind of deep Instagram photo posted by Adam: ’Everyday you give away a piece of yourself until nothing is left and that’s how you become a ghost’. The truth of these words hit me in the feels. In that moment, I thought it might be the way he felt at that time or this line may belong to a song from TOH. (Then I learnt that the 2nd option would be quite impossible, as it’s a well known saying of the native English speakers.)
The following day, Adam shared the title of his new single out of nowhere: GHOST TOWN.
I immediately realized what he was referring to with that quote the day before. The thought provoking thing began to work at once haha. I linked the quote and the title together and I was like: ’so, Ghost Town’s gonna be either the heart or the soul’. It was the very first thing that crossed my mind. And seems like I was right. A radio guy tweeted about the single, ending the tweet with 6 words from the song: ’my heart is a Ghost Town’.
Hit me in the feels – again. These words only make probably a line of the song but the deepness can be already felt. These words mean so much and they have that certain kind of meaning that everyone interprets in their own way, you all can identify yourselves with this expression – yet it’s really hard to explain, to put it into words what it means to you…
When I’ve been giving so much for so long without getting any of them back. When I’ve been putting my heart and soul into everything I do and in the end, I feel like I have nothing left. When I’ve been feeling love for ages then suddenly the ties get cut and it feels so empty inside. When my heart used to be full of life (emotions, experiences), then due to something, they’re gone, they become some bittersweet memories and end up haunting my heart.
Whatever used to live in my heart, doesn’t exist anymore. Whatever used to be in my heart, is now a ghost. A ghost that is now keeps on haunting me, through haunting the empty streets of my heart.
That’s when I’d say: My Heart Is A Ghost Town.
What Adam would say in the same case might be a completely different story… We’ll get to know it on the 21st!