Throughout the recording of ‘Intensive Care', Robbie was revisiting a lot of his favourite songs from the 1980s, particularly the Human League's ‘Louise', about a man who sees a former lover at the bus stop and realises he still has deep feelings for her. With ‘Ghosts', Robbie wanted to write Louise's response, and so this freewheeling melody is drenched in lost-love pinings and the very sweetest melancholy. The vocal harmonies in the chorus, meanwhile, which are almost hymnal, enhance its emotional clout exponentially.