Songfacts®:

• "Haunted When The Minutes Drag" is about dwelling on a long lost lover. Vocalist Daniel Ash sings about holding the clothes and other personal belongings of a woman he's lost and feeling haunted by her memories.
• The song is partially based on an actual person. In his Songfacts interview, Ash said bassist David J wrote the first half of the lyric about an art-school crush of his. The second half of the song is Ash's contribution. In it, he writes about a struggling romance occurring in his circle of friends at the time. So, "Haunted When The Minutes Drag" is really "two songs joined together."
• At just over eight minutes long, "Haunted When The Minutes Drag" is the longest track on Love And Rockets' debut album, Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven. The song wasn't released as a single but it's a solid display of the inventiveness of their sound.
  
  Like many pioneering albums, Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven didn't catch a lot of popular attention upon release, but it has since aged like fine wine and come to be appreciated by music aficionados. AllMusic, for example, called it "as profound an experience as any of the lauded trips of the original psychedelic era."
• The 2000 compact disc re-release of Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven has a "USA Mix" version of "Haunted When The Minutes Drag" that wasn't on the original.