Watch: Hall & Oates “cover” Broken Bells’ “The Ghost Inside”

When director Matt McCormick was listening to Broken Bells‘ “The Ghost Inside” for inspiration for a new official video, a most wonderful thought struck him. “(I) looked up the ‘Private Eyes’ video on YouTube,” he told Vulture in an interview (via TwentyFourBit), “and realized that song structure and tempo was pretty darn close to that of ‘Ghost Inside’. Thanks to that brilliant line of thinking, we now can see, in all its glorious glory, Hall & Oates (with James Mercer’s mouth synched in for Daryl Hall’s, of course) singing “The Ghost Inside” all the way back in 1981. Because even if you don’t have Christina Hendricks anymore, your dreams can still come true.