Ghost on the Dance Floor

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.

Those lyrics are still not correct. Correct ones are:

I'll never let you down boy, I'll never let you go Her subtle hint of life is so innocent and scary

So tell me that you're here boy, she says as if she knows when god took her with time, god made me quite alone

It's like the universe has left me, without a place to go without a hint of light, to watch the movement glow

When your song was slowly starting, your memory feld so real at first against my will, but god invented chills

Yeah I, I saw your ghost tonight, the moment felt so real If your eyes stay right on mine, my wounds would start to heal

The kids are in a hurry and I'm just full of fear. The lights make bodies blurry, it's getting hard enough to hear It's like the evidence is cared for, and evidently clear If I never leave this dance floor, I'll never leave you hear

I feld your ghost tonight, and god it felt like hell to know your're almost mine, but dreams are all I feel

Yeah I, I saw your ghost tonight, it fucking hurt like hell I felt you here tonight, but dreams can't all be real

Those are the ones from the booklet.

This song kinda reminds me of box car racer. The drums in the bridge were kind of amazing.

There is a line in the first pre-chorus. "But, God invented chills" is what it sounds like to me. Anybody else getting that too?

IMO this song is the same scenario as 'Not Now' but from the girl's perspective. If you don't know what 'Not Now' is about, go watch The Urethra Chronicles 2. :)

You have a lot of errors in the lyrics. Here are the correct lyrics.

I never let you down, boy I'll never let you go Your subtle hint of life Is so innocent and scary

So tell me that you're here, boy She says as if she knows What got to her in time God made me quite alone

It's like the universe has left me Without a place to go Without a hint of light To watch the movement glow

And our song is slowly starting Never felt so real At first against my will That God invented chills

And I I saw your ghost tonight The moment felt so real If your eyes stay right on mine My wounds would start to heal

The kids are in a hurry And I'm just full of fear The lights make bodies blurry It's getting hot enough to hear

It's like the evidence is cared for And evidently clear I'll never leave this dancefloor I'll never leave you here

And I I saw your ghost tonight The moment felt so real If your eyes stay right on mine My wounds would start to heal I felt your ghost tonight And God, it felt like hell To know you're almost mine But dreams are all I feel

And I I saw your ghost tonight It fucking hurt like hell I felt you here tonight But dreams can all be real I saw your ghost tonight It fucking hurt like hell I felt you here tonight But dreams can't all be real

IMO this song is about memories & dealing with the loss of a loved girlfriend / partner iv never heard a song witch i can relate to so well, so this is my image of how the lyrics portray whats happened to me and other guys who have lost their partners... mind my english..

I'll never let you down boy, I'll never let you go Her subtle hint of life is so innocent and scary = dreaming and imagining the girl is still there for you or what yous had has not ended.

So tell me that you're here boy, she says as if she knows when god took her with time, god made me quite alone = you feel she knows the pain your in and can feel it too.

It's like the universe has left me, without a place to go without a hint of light, to watch the movement glow = its as if EVERYTHING has been taken from you and there's nothing you can do about it

When your song was slowly starting, your memory felt so real at first against my will, but god invented chills = hearing a song that strongly reminds you of great memories yous shared but although the memories of her are good, it hurts and is sad to think about it , but you cant help it.

Yeah I, I saw your ghost tonight, the moment felt so real If your eyes stay right on mine, my wounds would start to heal = following directly from the last lyric the song triggering the memories are so clear in your mind its like you can see them as real as day, you now don't want to leave this daydream.

he kids are in a hurry and I'm just full of fear. The lights make bodies blurry, it's getting hard enough to hear It's like the evidence is cared for, and evidently clear If I never leave this dance floor, I'll never leave you hear = facing facts knowing it will never be real again, having anxiety attacks..u don't wanna leave the fond memories , they are as close to real as you can get

I felt your ghost tonight, and god it felt like hell to know you're almost mine, but dreams are all I feel = the memories in your head hasn't changed a thing, it hasn't brought her back. you realize its the worst pain you can get.... "like hell"

Yeah I, I saw your ghost tonight, it fucking hurt like hell I felt you here tonight, but dreams can't all be real =the word "fuck" here is extremely powerful. the memories and feelings are priceless but now worthless. the ghost is all you have now.

a great song but a very sad song to those who have gone through similar to what i have, this is why i click with this song so well. best album from blink!

I think "ghost" refers to someone you can' t get. Kind of like the idiom "give up the ghost." He knows he can't get her, so she's a ghost. And he says "to know that you're almost mine" shows how close he was to getting her, but in the end she is just a ghost, and he has to give up. I think with all the references to the dancefloor, he might have met a girl and took her dancing, or met her out at a club, and they hit it off, but it never worked out.

To me, this song is about "him" - the author of the song - being haunted by the memory of losing his lover when he was very young. "When God took her with time, God made me quite alone." This line implies that the loss is a permanent one; that she died. The second verse reminds me of a recurring dream of a past memory. It's like he's seeing the girl he lost again in a prom-dance-esque reminiscent dream, and he knows he can only be with her in that state. "If I never leave this dance floor, I'll never leave you here."

This song always has a very powerful effect on me when I listen to it. It invokes a feeling of deep pain and sadness...the kind that can rip through a person. This song always gives me chills and has brought tears to my eyes in a way that no other song has. Most people cry when they hear a song because they can personally relate to the pain the song portrays. For me, it's more like feeling so fucking sorry for the song-writer that it brings tears to my eyes. That makes this song a very strong one, and (I think) one of Tom Delonge's most well-written ones.

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