{"id":822,"date":"2017-02-22T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2017-02-22T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:51:11","slug":"ghost-of-me-behind-the-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/ghost-of-me-behind-the-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost of Me &#8211; Behind the Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 136K plays in a month for \u201cGhost of Me\u201d with @CloZee &#8211; wow! Thank you all for the support! It means so much. I wanted to share a little about what this song means to me. This may not be true for you, so don&#8217;t let my meaning change yours \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F300907838&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1080&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;in=thesotosinger%2Fsets%2Fghost-of-me-clozee-cristina\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2002, after suffering a personal trauma, I developed anorexia as a desperate attempt to regain control in my life. It nearly destroyed many relationships in my life and irreversibly altered my future. While I&#8217;m healthy today, it took years of work to recover and I had a support network that others do not. Nearly 10% of college women suffer from anorexia&#8230; it probably affects someone you know.<\/p>\n<p>I revisited a poem that I wrote back then when I was sick called &#8220;Starved Of&#8221; to draw the lyrics out for Ghost of Me. Here are the lyrics and the photo of the poem from an old journal.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">*An apple a day is not enough*<br \/>\n*An apple a day is not enough *<br \/>\n*Who is playing God here*<br \/>\n*How much can be controlled*<br \/>\n*Destruction creates more *<br \/>\n*To what degree is it a choice to be made *<br \/>\n*By human beings*<br \/>\n*See, we all prefer ecstasy *<br \/>\n*I am slowly becoming a ghost of me *<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-823 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ghost-of-Me-Behind-the-Lyrics-e1487777679328.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost of Me - Behind the Lyrics\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/1067;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-823\" src=\"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Ghost-of-Me-Behind-the-Lyrics-e1487777679328.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost of Me - Behind the Lyrics\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\"><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>If you know someone with this disease, please be patient with them as they recover. It is possible! Love yourself and all your imperfections, for they give you character and depth &lt;3 Thanks again for all your support on this song, and for listening to my story.<\/p>\n<p>Eating Disorder Help Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaleatingdisorders.org\/find-treatment\/treatment-and-support-groups\" target=\"_blank\">National Eating Disorders Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edreferral.com\/edcenters\" target=\"_blank\">Eating Disorder Referral<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/articles\/eating-disorders\/eating-disorder-treatment-and-recovery.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 136K plays in a month for \u201cGhost of Me\u201d with @CloZee &#8211; wow! Thank you all for the support! It means so much. I wanted to share a little about what this song means to me. This may not be true for you, so don&#8217;t let my meaning change yours \ud83d\ude42 In 2002, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristinasoto.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}