"The Ghost of You" is the fourth and final single and sixth track from My Chemical Romance's second studio album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge. The song deals with the fear of loss. The song also crossfades into "The Jetset Life is Gonna Kill You". This song is the band's seventh overall single. The song's title is an allusion to an ad from Watchmen, reading "Oh, how the ghost of you clings".^[1] The ad itself was an allusion to the song, "These Foolish Things". The song's lyrics deal with losing a loved one.

The music video was shot over two days in Malibu, California, and cost over US $1,000,000 to make. Marc Webb directed the video. In an interview with FUSE, My Chemical Romance said "We shot a movie and just edited it to be a video. It's like if you put 'Sleeping Child' and 'The Actor' together to make one long music video, it still would top that." It closely parallels the Omaha invasion scene from the movie Saving Private Ryan. Most of the video takes place at a USO dance where the band is performing, but, often switches over to a D-Day scene, in which the band members play as United States soldiers in fierce combat. (At the dance, one soldier's uniform bears the 101st Airborne Division "Screamin' Eagles" patch, however the 101st Airborne Division wasn't involved in beach landings, but were parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day, suggesting that several units were present at the ball. 1st Infantry Division and Ninth Air Force patches can also be seen)

The video takes an emotional turn when bassist Mikey Way is shot and killed by German fire despite the medic's (played by Ray Toro) attempts to save him, adding emphasis to the aspects of loss in the song. This is foreshadowed in a bar scene where vocalist Gerard Way, his brother appears to be reassuring him at a bar that he'll be alright, and there's no reason to be afraid. He is seen wearing a 1st Infantry Division patch in the video. Mikey "dies" with his eyes open. Gerard is held down by his squadmates/bandmembers in shock as he sees his brother die. Mikey wears a military medal on his uniform for The Black Parade, possibly a throwback to this video. The 1st Infantry Division, the "Big Red One" were among the first wave on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944. Gerard Way has to be restrained and is seen screaming (although there is no sound other than the song) as he tries to run to his brother. On Life on the Murder Scene, Ray is told to talk to Mikey to look like he's trying to save him. Obligingly, he shouts "Mikey! You're dead! [How do you feel!?]"

On September 7, 2005, on its fourth day, it reached number one on MTV's music-video countdown Total Request Live.^{[citation needed]} There is a cut version for daytime audiences, which leaves shots of soldiers vomiting and Mikey Way's wounds from machine gun firing absent.^{[citation needed]}

Mikey Way, in a recent interview with FUSE, stated that when the trap door on the landing craft opened and the band rushed forward, due to the weight of all the members, extras and gears combined, the craft capsized and filled with water to the point where the band nearly drowned.^{[citation needed]}

On the Life on the Murder Scene DVD, it is stated that during their tour with Green Day, Green Day showed MCR their video "Wake Me Up When September Ends", which also had a war theme. Gerard feared the video would be the same as theirs for "Wake Me Up When September Ends" but "The Ghost of You" was more about the loss of someone you love. Green Day in a way "gave us their blessing", as stated by Gerard.^{[citation needed]}

• While the soldiers are in the Higgins boats, a soldier is seen with the 2nd Ranger Battalion patch on his shoulder. When the soldiers get onto the beach, they wear the insignia of the 1st Infantry Division. During the Normandy invasion, these two units were not together at Omaha Beach.

• At the ball Mikey Way is seen playing an early model Fender P Bass. The electric bass sold from 1951.

• The leads being used should have been the curly "telephone cord" types, as opposed to the more modern leads they were using.

• At the end of the video, when the camera zooms into a distraught and shocked Gerard's eye, in the distance it is possible to see a soldier turn around and sit in a relaxed manner, despite the video not being over. Though, this could also be a depiction of soldier who is in shock.

• All songs written by My Chemical Romance.

US promotional CD

UK promotional CD

UK 7" vinyl

UK CD1

UK CD2

iTunes EP

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