Stars

Intro: verse 1 Back then it almost felt, Heaven sent With slow dancing models In a child's ornament Kept spinning our heads full of stars Don't know what we had But we knew it was ours With one hand on the small of her back The other in hers, as we moved to the track That was playing in our heads all along The symphony silent, a beautiful song We were lovers, we were doomed from the start It was all broken clockwork, the dancers both fall apart Maybe it was a dream, and I just woke up verse 2 The girl sits alone with her art Seems her words are the only way To mend her broken heart Like her life is the fiction not found Her real image in writing is staring straight back Her protagonist has broken hope The typewriter pause, then the words come out slowly Like teardrops, fall on the page In an instant her soul, released from its cage She wrote You were laying there dying, Like the end of a western Saying tell me what Europe is like I said tell me yourself, we can go when you feel right verse 3 At the coast, every star seems so near But you wouldn't know each, had been gone all those years And the ocean rose on like a dream And into the distance, forever it seems