Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
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Release date: 14 August 2006
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- Bulletproof Cupid
- English Summer Rain
- This Picture
- Sleeping With Ghosts
- The Bitter End
- Something Rotten
- Plasticine
- Special Needs
- I'll Be Yours
- Second Sight
- Protect Me From What I Want
- Centrefolds
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Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts: Wikipedia Album Entry
Sleeping With Ghosts is the fourth album released by European alternative rock band Placebo in 2003. It achieved chart success in the UK, Australia and Europe. This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.
Album meaning
The album has several songs based on a theme of relationships, whether as in relationships that end badly as in The Bitter End, power struggles in relationships (Special Needs) or the idea that some are meant to be eternal soulmates (the title track). Singer-lyricist Brian Molko told Kerrang! magazine that he was trying to 'exorcise' the 'ghosts' of the past:
I'm looking back to what's happened in my past emotional decade, trying to understand it. Trying to exorcise the ghosts and the demons of relationships past. It's the old cliché of it being therapeutic but it does work for me in that way.
Another interview has Molko explaining:
The album title's about carrying the ghosts of your relationships with you, to the point where sometimes a smell or a situation or an item of clothing they bought brings a person back. For me it's about the relationship that you have with your memories. They inhabit your dreams sometimes. There can be a lot in the future that's gonna remind you of the ghost of relationships past. So I see the album as a collection of short stories about a handful of relationships. Most of them mine. In a way writing the songs helps me to get a lot of the nasty feelings off my chest and put them in a box, and therefore have a bit more of an objective discourse with those emotions because you've done something positive with them, you've rid yourself of them.
During their concert in Sofia on 12 September 2003, the band dedicated the song Centrefolds to Johnny Cash who had died the same day, with Molko citing Cash as a key influence on the band.
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Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts Lyrics
Placebo - The Bitter End Lyrics
Since we're feeling so anesthetized
In our comfort zone
Reminds me of the second time
That I followed you home
Placebo - Special Needs Lyrics
Remember me when you're the one who's silver screen
Remember me when you're the one you always dreamed
Remember me when everyone's noses start to bleed
Remember me, special needs
Placebo - Something Rotten Lyrics
[Incomprehensible] it seems we're here
I miss you something rotten
The stinks are here
It's guaranteed all's forgotten
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts Lyrics
The sea's evaporated
Though it comes as no surprise
These clouds we're seeing
There're explosions in the sky
Placebo - Second Sight Lyrics
Walk away to save your face
You never were a genius
Walk away to save your face
You let it come between us
Placebo - Protect Me from What I Want Lyrics
It's that disease of the age
It's that disease that we crave
Alone at the end of the race
We catch the last bus home
Placebo - Plasticine Lyrics
Beauty lies inside the eye
Of another youthful dream
That doesn't sell it's soul for self esteem
That's not plasticine
Placebo - I'll Be Yours Lyrics
I'll be your water, bathing you clean
The liquid piece
I'll be your ether you'll breathe me in
You won't release
Placebo - English Summer Rain Lyrics
Always stays the same, nothing ever changes
English summer rain seems to last for ages
Always stays the same, nothing ever changes
English summer rain seems to last for ages
Placebo - Centrefolds Lyrics
Come on Balthazaa
I refuse to let you die
Come on fallen star
I refuse to let you die
Placebo - This Picture Lyrics
I hold an image of the ashtray girl
Of cigarette burns on my chest
I wrote a poem that described her world
That put our friendship to the test
