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Stray Kids

Ghost

Release date: 21st August 2025

From KARMA
Track 8
2:33
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Stray Kids confront dissociation and creative exhaustion on 'Ghost', a track that finds the group wrestling with the weight of expectation and the cost of relentless ambition. The song moves between English and Korean, its narrator caught in a cycle of self-doubt, describing the sensation of being present but absent, of losing oneself to the demands of a life lived at speed. There's a particular sting to the admission that no one can be satisfied, least of all oneself. Musically, the track builds from introspection into something more forceful, the production swelling to match the emotional crescendo. The repetition of "I feel like I'm a ghost" becomes both mantra and confession, a way of naming the hollow feeling that comes when you've given everything and still feel like you're not enough. It's a song about burnout dressed in the language of spectral absence, about the strange paradox of being visible and invisible at once.

"Ghost" is a track by Stray Kids, from the album KARMA, released 21st August 2025. The track is 2:33 long. It's filed under K-Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 5 articles about Stray Kids.

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Lyrics

Ghost

I've been doing this my whole life, stuck inside my head, "Got no time"
I just wanna reach that prime time, oh, whoa-oh
Don't wanna see another deadline, there's no day and night, yeah
I can feel my body getting light

Yeah, I just don't know what to say, 'cause to this day, I'm still astray
Yeah, I just don't think I can make it, endless rain, I'm still in pain
I know I wanna feel the rays of sunlight, fill my empty space
Yeah, I just don't know what to say, I lost my way, way, way, way

I feel like I'm a ghost, I'm out of my mind
I don't know why I'm lost in space and time
I feel like I'm a ghost, I'll say that I'm fine, I'm fine
I'm done

남들은 내가 떴대, 지금 난 그저 붕 떠 있는데
여태껏 겪은 난류와는 차원이 다른 버뮤다 삼각지대
나 자신을 위함과 해함이 공존케 하는 그들의 기대
나, 너 그 누구도 만족 못한다면, 이제 어디 기대

I ain't got no energy, I'm feeling dead inside
Too much of this, too much of that, I'm overloaded this time

Yeah, I just don't know what to say, 'cause to this day, I'm still astray
Yeah, I just don't think I can make it, endless rain, I'm still in pain
I know I wanna feel the rays of sunlight, fill my empty space
Yeah, I just don't know what to say, I lost my way, way, way, way

I feel like I'm a ghost, I'm out of my mind
I don't know why I'm lost in space and time
I feel like I'm a ghost, I'll say that I'm fine, I'm fine
I'm done

Rendezvous with the déjà vu
Repeated blues, yeah, the world's so cruel
Howling, "Boo" when the time is due
I don't know what to say, just pray that I'm okay

(I feel like I'm a ghost, I'm out of my mind)
(I don't know why I'm lost in space and time)
(I feel like I'm a ghost, I'll say that I'm fine, I'm fine)

Yeah, I just don't know what to say, 'cause to this day, I'm still astray
Yeah, I just don't think I can make it, endless rain, I'm still in pain
I know I wanna feel the rays of sunlight, fill my empty space
Yeah, I just don't know what to say, I lost my way

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Track details

From KARMA

2:332025
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KARMA
KARMA
Stray Kids
22nd August 2025
Track number
8
Release year
2025
  1. 1BLEEP
    2:47
  2. 2CEREMONY
    2:44
  3. 3CREED
    2:41
  4. 4MESS
    3:29

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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    BANG CHAN, CHANGBIN, 베르사최 (VERSACHOI)
    Lyricist
    BANG CHAN, CHANGBIN, 베르사최 (VERSACHOI)
    Composer
    BANG CHAN, CHANGBIN, 베르사최 (VERSACHOI)
    Vocals
    BANG CHAN, CHANGBIN, FELIX (Stray Kids), HAN (Stray Kids), HYUNJIN, I.N, LEE KNOW, SEUNGMIN (승민)
    Arranger
    BANG CHAN, 베르사최 (VERSACHOI)
    Assistant Immersive Mixing Engineer
    P.O.D. (KOR)
    Audio Edited At
    doobdoob Studio
    Background Vocals
    BANG CHAN
    Digital Audio Editor
    Eugene Kwon (doobdoob Studio)
    Immersive Mixing Engineer
    구종필 (JongPil Gu)
    Instrumentation
    BANG CHAN, 베르사최 (VERSACHOI)
    Mastering Engineer
    권남우 (Kwon Nam Woo)
    Mixing Engineer
    윤원권 (Yoon Won Kwon)
    Programmer
    BANG CHAN, 베르사최 (VERSACHOI)
    Recording Engineer
    구혜진 (Gu Hye Jin), 이창훈 (Lee Chang Hoon) (JYPE Studio)
    Vocal Director
    BANG CHAN, 베르사최 (VERSACHOI)
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