Ariana Grande - Ghostin Meaning

Song Released: 2019

Ghostin Lyrics

I know you hear me when I cry
I try to hold it in the night
While you're sleepin' next to me
But it's your arms that I need this time (This time)
Look at the cards that we've been dealt
If you were anybody else
Probably wouldn't last a...

1. anonymous

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   Nov 1st 2022 !⃝

   She was still mourning mac but she was with Pete at the time, and she felt like Pete thought she didn’t care for him because all she could do was cry. She’s saying she should’ve ghosted Mac sooner or maybe she means she should have ‘ghosted’ his death. One of those.
2. anonymous

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   Apr 11th 2022 !⃝

   this song is about ariana’s relations to mac and pete at the time. feeling so overwhelmed with mac’s death but feeling like she isn’t enough for pete and that she’s ignoring him and not giving him enough attention, which eventually led to the break off of the engagement. feeling like pete could tell he couldn’t compare, and instead of leading him on she should’ve “ghosted him”.
3. anonymous

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   Apr 11th 2022 !⃝

   this song is about ariana’s relations to mac and pete at the time. feeling so overwhelmed with mac’s death but feeling like she isn’t enough for pete and that she’s ignoring him and not giving him enough attention, which eventually led to the break off of the engagement. feeling like pete could tell he couldn’t compare, and instead of leading him on she should’ve “ghosted him”. overall this is a beautiful song, portrayed in a beautiful way. one of ariana’s best songs for sure.
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   Mar 23rd 2021 !⃝

   Ghostin is about Mac Miller, in the song "Cinderella" by Mac he says: You're in my dreams, that's why I sleep all the time.
   
   And in Ghostin Ariana says: He come to visit me, while i'm dreaming every now and then.
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   Jan 24th 2020 !⃝

   It is clearly referencing her separate relationships with Mac Miller and Pete Davidson.
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   Mar 23rd 2019 !⃝

   Though the lyrics of Ghostin', fans have found the Mac Miller and Pete Davidson references.
   
   On Twitter, she said "feeling badly for the person you're with bc you love somebody else. feeling badly bc he can tell he can't compare.... and how I should be ghosting him," she tweeted when someone asked her what the song meant.
   
   I think it's because Miller's death hit her pretty hard. Maybe she still loved him, while she was dating Pete, and soon after he passed, they broke up.
   
   The line that says "I know it breaks your heart when I cry again, over him," is probably how because Pete and Ariana were together, it isn't fair that she still cries for Mac, even after they've broken up.
   
   In reality, both Pete and Ariana are really ordinary, broken people. Pete lost his father in the 9/11 attacks and Ariana was suffering from PTSD after the Manchester bombing. Ariana wrote this song, I guess, as kind of a tribute to their relationship, how it was never perfect.
   
   Then, when she says, "I know that it breaks your heart when I cry again, 'Stead of ghostin' him," is basically saying that instead of letting go of Mac Miller, who she dated for years, she still mourned over him.
   
   "Ghostin'" seems to be used more figuratively here, possibly saying that she knew it killed him that she let her past relationship haunt her current one.
   
   Pete probably also never really appreciated that she still mourned over her ex-boyfriend, like in the second verse, "Though I wish he were here instead/Don't want that living in your head/He just comes to visit me/When I'm dreaming every now and then."