“Secular Haze” is supposed to feel like you’re in a stormy sea, with waves. The idea was musically inspired by a saying, how someone that has been close to dying by drowning said that the feeling that you get is an enormous, cold, anxious feeling which is replaced just before you die with a warm acc...
[Verse 1: Papa Emeritus II]
You know that the fog is here omnipresent
When the diseases sees no cure
You know that the fog is here omnipresent
When the intents remain obscure
Forever more
[Chorus: Papa Emeritus II]
Weave us a mist, fog weaver
Hide us in shadows, unfathomable
Wall less maze… a secular haze
[Verse 2: Papa Emeritus II]
You know that his son is near omnipotent
When she sees eye to eye with spear
You know that his son is near omnipotent
When youth and innocence disappear
Forever lost
[Chorus: Papa Emeritus II]
Weave us a mist, fog weaver
Hide us in shadows, unfathomable
Wall less maze… a secular haze
[Verse 3: Papa Emeritus II]
He is divinity omniscient
Seeing the world revolve with spite
The surge of humanity oblivious
To the divine whom bringeth light
Let there be night
[Outro: Papa Emeritus II]
Weave us a mist, fog weaver
Hide us in shadows, fog weaver
Come, mist eternal, huh
Come, mist eternal, huh
Come, secular haze
Secular Haze was written by Tobias Forge.
Secular Haze was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Ghost released Secular Haze on Sat Dec 15 2012.
The song is about the situation one finds oneself when one is on deathbed. For example, in an interview, a nameless ghoul explains what the song is really about and how freezing to death is one of the best ways to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eILNMWrN6M