"The Ghost of You and Me"

I recently started transcribing the lyrics from the liner notes of Colin Blunstone's The Ghost of You and Me.  While copying the title track, I remembered something I'd noticed a long time ago, but apparently I neglected to write about it.

In the bridge, there are the lines "I hear the voices call / Following footsteps down the hall," which are fairly similar to the second verse of the Zombies' "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself":

Late at night I hear footsteps sound down the hall
And I kid myself that you're coming back after all
Telephone rings, but there's no one on the line no no no
When I stop and think, I know it's all in my mind

Both portray a lost love's imagined "footsteps down the hall."  There seems to be a bit of a connection between "the voices call[ing]" in "The Ghost of You and Me" and the "telephone ring[ing]" in "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself" too.

However, neither of these songs was written Blunstone (or the other Zombies).  "Gotta Get a Hold of Myself" was written by Clint Ballard Jr. and Angela Riela, and "The Ghost of You and Me" by Jon Lind and Richard Page.  So while it doesn't seem that the resemblance is meant to be a reference, it does seem to say something about Blunstone's sensibilities and what sort of songs he records.