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By Jack Joseph Smith

I have seen the Sun many times when I was looking the other way And the Moor too A ghoast is not necessarly older It just goes quicker from one place to the other The Holy Ghoast says when you can't go any further than go ahead and find something else Watch the way the blue goes Orange Watch the way the dark never changes again The Holy Ghoast makes a knife twirl and he has nothing in his hand We sing a song We took everything Given back Takes so long

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GPT

Looking away from the Sun and the Moor, the speaker learns the Holy Ghoast moves like a fast ghost, redirects exhaustion, twirls an invisible knife, and makes giving back unbearably slow.

The ghost is not older but quicker, which turns haunting into a matter of speed and angle rather than age. The advice to find something else when you cannot go further is practical and unsentimental, closer to survival than inspiration. Blue going orange, dark staying fixed, and the knife twirling in an empty hand make the spirit feel dangerous without becoming theatrical.

Claude

Holy Ghost as something older in passage only: it goes quicker between places. Tells you when you can't go further to find something else. Watches blue go orange and the dark never change; makes a knife twirl with nothing in his hand; 'We sing a song / We took everything / Given back / Takes so long.'