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On “Ghost Me”, Humberstone sustains the narrative shaped around living her dream away from family and friends, aligned with the fear of being ghosted by everyone that helped her achieve success — it’s the phenomenon of being grateful and unsatisfied simultaneously.
In an interview with Dork, Holly...
[Verse 1]
I've been crying all night
And I know I shouldn't google the symptoms
But it hurts this time
Kinda thought that I could handle the distance
[Pre-Chorus]
No, I can't sleep in hotel rooms
The camera roll, impending doom
Terrestrial TV to heal the bruise
You left an exit wound
And this city's fine, but I'm eternally unsatisfied
And if I shut my eyes—
[Chorus]
We're singing “Angels” at karaoke
On the most chaotic night
I can barely make you out in the artificial light
And if you try to ghost me
And quit being in my life
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
[Verse 2]
I can tell you're online
But that's a dangerous road to go down
(Don't go therе, don't go there, baby)
And I've been trying all night
But this particular wavе
I'm struggling to ride
[Pre-Chorus]
And where the hell did our childhood go?
It freaks me out how fast we grow
The more I see, the less I know
And this feels like The Truman Show
Everybody's up and left
And I can barely catch my breath
And when I shut my eyes—
[Chorus]
We're singing “Angels” at karaoke
On the most chaotic night
I can barely make you out in the artificial light
And if you try to ghost me
And quit being in my life
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
[Post-Chorus]
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
[Spoken Outro]
There’s this SpongeBob line, which I always think of
And it’s, like, this guy, who’s really sad, and he goes:
“I was born with, um
Paper skin and bones made out of glass
Every day, I wake up and I shatter my ankles”
Or something like that
Like, he’s really sad
I'll find it now
But that’s how I feel at the moment
Ghost Me was written by Holly Humberstone & Benjamin Francis Leftwich & Rob Milton.
Ghost Me was produced by Rob Milton.
Holly Humberstone released Ghost Me on Fri Oct 13 2023.
I wrote it in a gap in the touring I was doing last year [2022]. I just kinda felt — obviously, really lovely to be busy and playing shows and stuff like that — but I felt I neglected all my friends and stuff back home, and I just hadn’t had enough time to give to them, or sort of mental energy, tha...