.:Comatose:.
This is one of my first songs that ever did an above average job of capturing how I felt at the time I wrote it. It is also the only song I've ever written that is directly about myself.
Throughout high school, I felt like people, especially staff, were assuming I had problems because I acted differently than they did. I smiled and laughed a lot, and would often get asked if I was drunk or high long before I drank or tried pot. Twice I was called to the guidance counsellor's office because of poetry I'd written that had nothing to do with my own feelings. It was as if people were trying to make up problems in my life because they couldn't explain the different ways I acted. Sure, I did Christina Aguilera airbands and always went all out for Spirit Week to get some attention, but not to cause trouble - I did things like that because I wanted people to laugh!
Back to the point, the ghost that the chorus refers to is the non-existent problems that keep vanishing anyone who worked at the school actually tried talking to me. And perhaps more significantly, "you learned how to close your eyes" refers to how I lost faith in the high school system because of the way they treated me.
Of course, it did take a certain amount of teenage angst to turn people's genuine attempts to care (Pinawa is paranoid about suicides and that sort of thing) into a complaint, but it wears on you as the years go by!
