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If You​’​re the North Star, I​’​m a Faulty Paper Lantern

from Ghost Towns by For the Sake of Brevity

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Driving past that one house
The balconies stack like novels I keep meaning to read
You make me feel like a fraud
If I was braver or dumber
I might say I love you for it
I'll try to figure out
What it is about the word love that makes my eyes well up with tears
My mask start to fall apart and split

And when a metaphor meets real life
I can't tell if that makes it better or worse
The narcissist in the back of my head insists
I'm not hopeless, I'm cursed

Time zones are just small scale astrology
And I'll sleep when I find a quieter chest
I'm a mess
But I'll look up to Polaris
And hope we'll see the same constellations in time
And time zones are the oceans between us
Set sail to the center, catch a moment
And I'll get lost at sea
Treasure hunting wont do much to find me
But get a wreck washed up on shore
And we can get some sleep

I know you know I do this
But you always said you don't pay attention to lyrics
So I wonder if you'll ever know that this one's about you
And I know it's a cliche to point out cliches
As some gesture at self awareness
So is it ironic that all I ever wanted to say
Is "you have really pretty eyes"

And my anxiety jumps teams between calling me
A coward and a nuisance
Overthinking every seasonal first word

Time zones are just small scale astrology
And I'll sleep when I find a quieter chest
I'm a mess
But I'll look up to Polaris
And hope we'll see the same constellations in time
And time zones are the oceans between us
Set sail to the center, catch a moment
And I'll get lost at sea
Treasure hunting wont do much to find me
But get a wreck washed up on shore
And we can get some sleep

You're moving up north in 2 months
We might never see each other again
I spent so long waiting for the future
That I forgot to make it happen
Effort is vulnerability
I've got the unfortunate condition of having
A heavy heart with no spine to support it
(Why's it even so fucking important?)
I'm sorry for the confusion
The awkward silences
The space
And what makes all this talk about
Distance and oceans and stars so pathetic
Is that, at least for now, you're only a few steps away

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from Ghost Towns, released July 15, 2022

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For the Sake of Brevity Vilnius, Lithuania

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