Ghost - 12 - Avalanche

All their best songs/covers are either hard to find or impossible to own 😭

You know you are good when you can cover Leonard Cohen and pet shop boys on the same album and they both sound great

Tobias: I will make the best most scrumptious delicious crisp covers ever Also Tobias: Actually i wont put them onto spotify or the cds and vinyls WHY TOBI WHY

For those who don't know, this is a cover. Originally by Leonard Cohen. This is fantastic!

[Verse 1: Cardinal Copia] Well, I stepped into an avalanche It covered up my soul When I am not this hunchback that you see I sleep beneath the golden hill You, who wish to conquer pain You must learn, learn to serve me well [Verse 2: Cardinal Copia] You strike my side by accident As you go down for your gold The cripple here that you clothe and feed Is neither starved nor cold He does not ask for your company Not at the center, the center of the world [Verse 3: Cardinal Copia] When I am not on a pedestal You did not raise me there Your laws do not compel me To kneel grotesque and bare I, myself am the pedestal For this ugly hump at which you stare [Verse 4: Cardinal Copia] You who wish to conquer pain You must learn what makes me kind The crumbs of love that you offer me They're the crumbs I've left behind Your pain is no credential here It's just the shadow; shadow of my wound [Verse 5: Cardinal Copia] I have begun to long for you I, who have no greed I have begun to ask for you I, who have no need You say you've gone away from me But I can feel you, feel you when you breathe [Verse 6: Cardinal Copia] Do not dress in those rags for me I know you are not poor You don't love me quite so fiercely now When you know that you are not sure It is your turn, beloved It is your flesh that I wear

Man I wish they would play this live

I love the original, but Ghost’s cover adds so much color to it. Underrated track for sureee

This is one of the best Leonard Cohen covers ever, and that’s in some heavy company

2:54 the way he growls/hisses is so bone chilling and wicked i will never be over this cover

this is literally my favourite song in the entire world. i fell in love with it while listening to nick cave's version. then i listened to the original and it made me fall in love with it even more. i can't even express how much this song means to me, so much that now, when i'm so much into Ghost i was afraid of playing it. i wanted to expect and get another masterpiece. and they did that song such justice. it suits Cardinal Copia on so many levels. my stomach literally hurts from emotions. Avalnache is and always will be the most underrated music masterpiece and i'm so happy that tobias also has seen the magnificence of this piece.

Somehow the song gives me the impression that it is being sung from the perspective of a troll or dwarven king .Maybe even a dragon

Now I finally know what this sprecial extra that Ghost seems to have sounds like: Villain themes from older Disney movies!

I absolutely love this he sounds so awsome and wicked in this.

I'm never going to get tired of this

I play bass so I like this version over the original more because there's bass I like bass

Genuinely my favourite cover of all time.

“I can feel you when you breathe” THIS SONG IS SO GOOD OML 🔥

This song really touched me.... Makes me want to fly into the stars & stare at a black hole & contemplate my life

It's funny, I never liked this cover that much but it was interesting enough for me to go ahead and listen to other ghost stuff which I absolutely love.

Awesome cover. Wish it was on streaming