Stardust

It takes some time to realise
The traps you lay are not exclusive to your enemies
You can’t control where people go
Inside, a table stretches into the horizon
Where a family sits in silence
As if it doesn’t matter now

Inside the walls they’re sat waiting in front of piles of stardust
Bodies made of stardust
And all the eyes are on me
I hear a voice of lost patience
Tearing all the gleam away
I’ll end my days in stardust
If I don’t learn from their mistakes

I step onto the stage
You take my hand and ask me not to change
You said I’m afraid of what they’ll take

And every night it ends
I’m waking up at home
But there’s salvation in the stardom
Or my mind has grown a conscience of its own
When we’re lonely we can always dim the lights
Paint a new disguise and close our eyes

And there it disappears
Inside the walls I keep a journal to remind me of my fears
My ball and chain
There is life inside
But nowhere to begin
I let it out to let the stardust in

What a time to be alive

Find the thing you love and let it crush the ones you love
At least the end is not your burden
You’ll never see how much it hurts
I’m leaning in to see myself
How did I get here?
What could make me lose my focus?
My mirror image walks away

But every night I recreate
The silence in the stardust
I give my family stardust
But this is getting harder
Either its fame or it’s failure
And a longing to escape
I’ll end my days a godess
Or a cautionary tale

It’s running from your life
Compassion’s not enough to steer me right
If they don’t understand what hides inside

And every night it ends
I’m waking up at home
But there’s salvation in the stardom
Or my mind has grown a conscience of its own
When we’re lonely we can always dim the lights
Paint a new disguise and close our eyes

And there it disappears
Inside the walls I keep a journal to remind me of my fears
My ball and chain
There is life inside
But nowhere to begin
I let it out to let the stardust in

What a time to be alive