Stars

You were a streetlight in a starless city,
And because I had never seen a star,
I thought you were beautiful

I wanted to watch you for the rest of my life,
Like judgment would fall in love with invincible walls;
But I learned soon enough,
You were just fire in a cage and a broken heart

My days are no longer measured by what I want to believe,
They're only shifts in the coma factory

So when I awoke at the sound of laughter,
I was speechless to find the skies lit;
I was speechless to hear voices singing;
I was speechless to find that I could dream

I remember walking through the city in the dark of night,
The stars began to emerge like angels upon hell;
And I saw you reaching for black sky,
Like envy painted with emptiness,
You wanted what you could never be

I watched your face twist when the stars asked me if I wanted to be free,
I saw the iron tighten around you as your thoughts began to bloom;
Through clenched teeth and hatered,
You told me to leave;
You screamed a lie and claimed that you had never loved me

I felt my heart breaking at your words' whim and the iron flowing through my veins,
The stars pulled me to the sky urgently,
Trying to outrun my pain;
We made it to heaven,
But they wouldn't let me in

After a thousand long nights of looking through the cracks in the gate,
I turned to what was left of who I used to be;
Who we used to be

Though you were enclosed in iron,
You knew I sat,
Waiting over the city,
Watching over the city,
Waiting for you,
Watching you

I was the only star that the city could see,
And I was just an iron ball;
Like a bullet of warning;
And I was just flames;
But my flames were free;
And I was just a broken heart;
The dream the worst nightmare aspires to be