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Dessa wrote the tune after running into a former lover at a mutual friend’s wedding. “We saw each other, all dressed up in our Sunday finest, and we did our best to behave like graceful adults, shaking hands with each other’s dates,” she said. “A hard breakup can conjure a storm of competing emotions — bitterness, love, jealousy, tenderness, self-pity, velociraptor-crazy fits of rage. ‘Call Off Your Ghost’ is about trying to fall out of a love that has outlasted its relationship.