Song of the Day (The Chain): Japan – Ghosts

Day 18. The link today is that Air released a DJ mix album in the Late Night Tales series. I decided to pick a tune off that to form the next link in the chain. By coincidence, I have just finished reading Mark Fisher’s Ghosts Of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology And Lost Futures. Not only is it named after lyrics from this song, but it also features a chapter which discusses it in depth alongside two songs that sampled from it.

Ghosts is slow, sinister, transcendental Art Pop. Atmospheric & eerie, a clear precursor & influence on what we now call Hauntology.

When the room is quiet 
The daylight almost gone 
It seems there’s something I should know 
Well I ought to leave but the rain it never stops 
And I’ve no particular place to go 

Just when I think I’m winning 
When I’ve broken every door 
The ghosts of my life blow wilder than before 
Just when I thought I could not be stopped 
When my chance came to be king 
The ghosts of my life blew wilder than the wind 

Well I’m feeling nervous 
Now I find myself alone 
The simple life’s no longer there 
Once I was so sure 
Now the doubt inside my mind 
Comes and goes but leads nowhere 

Just when I think I’m winning 
When I’ve broken every door 
The ghosts of my life blow wilder than before 
Just when I thought I could not be stopped 
When my chance came to be king 
The ghosts of my life blew wilder than the wind

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