I think this song is about how hard it is to let go of someone once a relationship is over. It's so easy to get hung up on keeping track of all the little injuries between people. He sees vestiges of the person in the sky, like a ghost because he's having trouble just moving on. Sometimes the actual act of moving on involves sacrificing something we think is important or has a quantifiable value (200 Kroners for the answering machine) but will be offset by the inevitable freeness that comes with giving it up.
Also, I was at my aunt's house this winter for Christmas in the interior of British Columbia and noticed how easy it is to see images against an evenly cloudy, milk white sky in winter because all of the light is filtered and the sky is just slightly darker than light sources. It looks like there are ghosts against a screen.
I think this song is about how hard it is to let go of someone once a relationship is over. It's so easy to get hung up on keeping track of all the little injuries between people. He sees vestiges of the person in the sky, like a ghost because he's having trouble just moving on. Sometimes the actual act of moving on involves sacrificing something we think is important or has a quantifiable value (200 Kroners for the answering machine) but will be offset by the inevitable freeness that comes with giving it up.
Also, I was at my aunt's house this winter for Christmas in the interior of British Columbia and noticed how easy it is to see images against an evenly cloudy, milk white sky in winter because all of the light is filtered and the sky is just slightly darker than light sources. It looks like there are ghosts against a screen.