Ghost Orchid
by @nancyrostMod · @mikeskliar
Liner Notes
Nancy: This song started with Mike’s guitar track. While toggling between other songs in progress, it occurred to me that the feel would suit a lyrical idea I had to fulfill a challenge from @wylddandelyon from the “Give a prompt, receive a prompt” thread https://write.fawm.org/forums/3323: “Write a song about your favorite extinct animal, bird, fish, or plant.” I don’t know if I have a single favorite, but I was interested in this endangered one that has at times been thought extinct. Ghost orchids are thin and pale, often hidden, and don’t have the means for photosynthesis, instead relying on networks of fungi for their nutrition. What would one be like as a person?
Mike: Guitar
Nancy: Lyrics, vocal, Ashbory bass, electric organ
#PromptChain #acousticrock #organ-solo
Lyrics
You’ve got that 90s model-waif thing
Pouty lips, pale and thin
The gossip rags say it’s heroin
27 Club waiting in the wings
They had you down for the count in the cold hard ground, forever thwarted
Buried so deep in a permanent sleep, deep in the forest
But you’re haunting them, gorgeous
Ghost orchid
A star who’s not sensational
Is like a plant that has no chlorophyll
Do you take some magic pill
Are you breathing through your gills?
They had you down for the count in the cold hard ground, forever thwarted
Buried so deep in a permanent sleep, deep in the forest
But you’re haunting them, gorgeous
Ghost orchid
You’ve got your roots to get by
A neighborhood ungentrified
That feeds the beauty inside
When you bloom you open wide
They had you down for the count in the cold hard ground, forever thwarted
Buried so deep in a permanent sleep, deep in the forest
But you’re haunting them, gorgeous
Ghost orchid
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I know this voice and this guitar well - they come together to create quite a different third persona. You work well together.
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