I think it's simpler than that, if for no other reason than that there was a time when I felt like the person she was singing about. I was very depressed at one point and had kind of pulled into myself and disappeared in my own little world, and a few friends were making several attempts to reach me, to help me, to get in, but I wasn't letting anyone in, and I had to 'take a closer look at what it is that's really haunting you' in order to get out of it.
The 'digital ghost'--ghosts in the machine--is as close as she can get to the person, and she has to trust the part she has access to that this will turn around, only she's afraid they won't be the same the change doesn't start soon.
She probably wrapped it in computer terminology to set the stage, but at the core I think it's a song about trying to reach someone who is keeping themselves so untouchable that their personality is changing for the worse.
I think it's simpler than that, if for no other reason than that there was a time when I felt like the person she was singing about. I was very depressed at one point and had kind of pulled into myself and disappeared in my own little world, and a few friends were making several attempts to reach me, to help me, to get in, but I wasn't letting anyone in, and I had to 'take a closer look at what it is that's really haunting you' in order to get out of it.
The 'digital ghost'--ghosts in the machine--is as close as she can get to the person, and she has to trust the part she has access to that this will turn around, only she's afraid they won't be the same the change doesn't start soon.
She probably wrapped it in computer terminology to set the stage, but at the core I think it's a song about trying to reach someone who is keeping themselves so untouchable that their personality is changing for the worse.