This song is one that I regularly go back to whenever I want to remind myself who the greatest singer in the world is. Though I don’t particularly have any connection to the song itself, I am a huge fan of Yannis and am always inspired by his commitment to his craft and his mastery over his voice. I also admire the way he subverts expectations and goes against the norm for both his gender and the genre he is in.

Ghost Love Score by Nightwish is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of the greatest symphonic metal bands around. At nearly 10 minutes long, it is a compositional masterpiece with a beautiful, soaring melody at its centre.

But perhaps more impressive than the original is this cover by Beast in Black’s singer Yannis Papadopolous. Though he is no stranger to singing with a typically female register and tone, the fact that he is able to sing the song in the same key as Nightwish’s singer, Floor Jansen, is an incredible feat that clearly exhibits his ridiculous talent as a singer.

Listen to the track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZxu1aQzp8

Submitted by Prashant Srinivasan Sarkar

Ghost Love Score

We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I’ll bleed forever

Scent of the sea before the waking of the world
Brings me to thee
Into the blue memory

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I will bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I will bleed forever

Into the blue memory

A siren from the deep came to me
Sang my name my longing
Still I write my songs about that dream of mine
Worth everything I may ever be

The Child will be born again
That siren carried him to me
First of them true loves
Singing on the shoulders of an angel
Without care for love n’ loss

Bring me home or leave me be
My love in the dark heart of the night
I have lost the path before me
The one behind will lead me

Bring me home or leave me be
My love in the dark heart of the night
I have lost the path before me
The one behind will lead me

Take me
Cure me
Kill me
Bring me home
Every way
Every day
Just another loop in the hangman’s noose

Take me, cure me, kill me, bring me home
Every way, every day
I keep on watching us sleep

Relive the old sin of Adam and Eve
Of you and me
Forgive the adoring beast

Redeem me into childhood
Show me myself without the shell
Like the advent of May
I’ll be there when you say
Time to never hold our love

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
You were the one to cut me
So I’ll bleed forever…