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"Love Like Ghosts" is a wistful song incorporating ethereal sounds with 60s-era song structure. She compares love to being haunted, and sings to a lover, believing they don't want her, begging them to explain why they are leaving. Whether this is actually about Lou's experience or mysterious past is unclear, but it is clearly an emotionally-affecting song about unrequited love. The simile that "love is like ghosts" speaks to a feeling that you can believe in something, even think you have seen it, but you do not necessary know that it is real, and not everyone will believe in it. The lyric "few have seen it but everybody talks" suggests the singer is surrounded by people who talk about love, or by culture that focuses on it, but that few people are truly in love.
"What ain't living can never really die" may refer to her belief that her lover never loved her, so that love can't die, as it never existed. Nevertheless, she wants "ours to be an endless song", and she loves them so much she believes they can do no wrong. She explains that she doesn't "feel it till it hurts sometimes so go on, baby, hurt me tonight," perhaps cajoling them to end the relationship with her so she really feels it is over.
She ends the song with the repeated outro: "I sing all day and I love you through the night," suggesting even though she knows the relationship is toxic, she cannot help but keep loving this individual.
This could be the foreshadowing for the rest of the story, as the main character will soon have first hand experience with death.
Another possibility, perhaps the more controversial one, is that this song is playing off of the last song on their Lonesome Dreams album. In “In the Wind”, our female lead is left to believe that “death is a wall but it can’t be the end”. Their love has transcended the “end” and they are now loving as ghosts.
There is a quote by French author François de La Rochefoucauld:
"Il est du véritable amour comme de l'apparition des esprits: tout le monde en parle, mais peu de gens en ont vu."
This translates from French to: "True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."
The song "Love Like Ghosts" appears to expand on this concept.
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