I’d forgotten about this song, by Stars, until I recently heard it again and it stopped me in my tracks the way it did when I first heard it. When I first listened to it, I thought it was about an alien encounter. Then I realized it sounded more like ghosts…specifically, metaphorical ghosts. The “kids” mentioned in the song are, I think, people and places from the past, and maybe lost innocence and hope- “they had lights inside their eyes.” Whether it’s about ghosts or not, it is, for lack of a better word, haunting.