Sounds an awful lot like what it's like to go through the experience of heartbreak, whether it be in losing a loved one in passing or in seeing someone you dearly loved fall out of your life. When you're separated from someone you miss more than anything in the world (especially if it's someone you're in love with), you create an idealized image of them in your mind, and whenever you revisit that image (despite the passage of time and the way circumstances change), you're left with a ghost of a memory.
There are a number of ways to interpret this song, and I'm very impressed with DeLonge's songwriting here - it's a couple steps above anything he ever previously wrote with Blink/Boxcar Racer or with Angels and Airwaves. To me, this is absolutely about being unable to escape the memory of someone you still desperately miss and love - despite the fact that the person has moved on and no longer feels the same way about you. There's no feeling more bitter than the loneliness and sadness of realizing that you can never revisit or rewrite the past, especially when it comes to changing someone's feelings about you. If it makes any sense, sometimes the most haunting "ghosts" are the ones which are still alive and well, but are no longer in our lives as we once knew them.
Sounds an awful lot like what it's like to go through the experience of heartbreak, whether it be in losing a loved one in passing or in seeing someone you dearly loved fall out of your life. When you're separated from someone you miss more than anything in the world (especially if it's someone you're in love with), you create an idealized image of them in your mind, and whenever you revisit that image (despite the passage of time and the way circumstances change), you're left with a ghost of a memory.
There are a number of ways to interpret this song, and I'm very impressed with DeLonge's songwriting here - it's a couple steps above anything he ever previously wrote with Blink/Boxcar Racer or with Angels and Airwaves. To me, this is absolutely about being unable to escape the memory of someone you still desperately miss and love - despite the fact that the person has moved on and no longer feels the same way about you. There's no feeling more bitter than the loneliness and sadness of realizing that you can never revisit or rewrite the past, especially when it comes to changing someone's feelings about you. If it makes any sense, sometimes the most haunting "ghosts" are the ones which are still alive and well, but are no longer in our lives as we once knew them.