Stars

How is it that I should look at the stars?

Drove out in the desert in a rental car

And I climb up on the roof and lie in wait

For my eyes to adjust for some peaceful state

When I was a child, my mother'd send me outside

On a moonless night to see the light

Cast out in some ancient storm

With a woolen blanket to keep me warm

So overwhelmed by the beauty of the sky

How could I not be?

But how should I look at the stars tonight?

At a million suns? None of them mine

Nowhere up there is a place likе this

Not one waterfall, no river mist

I fеlt dizzy, my chest clenched cold and tight

It'll be 2020 tomorrow night

From Salton City, I hear fireworks go off

As though they're celebrating all another year has cost

Or is it carelessness?

Send another star into the sky

Only to watch it die

Fall across the black in a shining arc

I swear to god, this world will break my heart