Don't tell me you're done for
Don't need to hear you're done for
But you can tell me what you are running from
I need you more than you need you

I can see you're really really running
Can I ask you where you gonna run to
And you think your really really funny
Well I don't think your funny as you do

We all feel like we're breaking sometime
But I won't give you up tonight

Stay awake, stay awake
Survive
I've got nineteen stars that I
Give your name tonight

And I wanna scream, wanna scream your name.
Star light, star bright can save
You're my wish tonight

Don't tell me it doesn't matter
I'll tell you what matters
Bare feet in the summer
Open windows at night
You think that no one needs you

You don't have nothing to see through
Well I needed you.
Don't I count?
Lets fight.

Show me anger
Fierce fists clutching onto air.
Show me anything.
Just show me you care.

Stay awake, stay awake
Survive
I've got nineteen stars that I
Give your name tonight

I wanna scream, wanna scream your name
Star light, Star bright can save
You're my wish tonight

No one can catch me
The way that you catch me
The way that you keep me when I'm out of sight
What if I need you
What if I can't see you
I'm running out of life

No one can catch me
The way that you catch me
The way that you keep me when I'm out of time
What if I need you
What if I can't see you
I'm running out of life

Please
Stay awake, stay awake
Survive
I've got nineteen stars that I
Give your name tonight

And I wanna scream, wanna scream your name
Star light, star bright can save
You're my wish
You're my wish my wish
You're my wish tonight


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Nineteen Stars Lyrics as written by Meg Frampton Dia Frampton

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    Wow I cant believe no one commented this song. I absolutely love this song. I'm not sure what it means. but maybe it's about someone who has a friend who's suicidal or hates life. and she goes "I need you more than you need you" and that this friend is one of the only reasons she keeps going on, because he pushes her to keep going "the way that you keep me when I'm out of time"

    cant_take_thison February 20, 2007   Link
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    i absolutely LOVE this song, and i'm even getting a tattoo inspired by it. to me this song is about a friendship or relationship that's suffering. i agree with the first comment that the person this song is talking about is possibly suicidal. i can really relate to a lot of the lines in this song "i need you more than you need you"

    nineteen[cait]starson February 28, 2007   Link
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    This song is about suicide. and a person giving support to the person who is contamplating it. Dia said in an article that she thought it was amazing that someone was so sad that they would take theyre own life. this song reminds me of my friend.

    x3hanbanon April 02, 2007   Link
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    Ok this song how come more ppl haven't commented it? Ok well this is what I get out of it...she has a guy who she lvs and he wants to just give up but she is telling no he can't and he is saying no one needs him and she is like DON'T U SAY THAT becuse I need u and I love you do I not count becuse u seem to always forget I'm here for you.......this song I had a best freind who this song describes some of the times we went throught perfectly :'[

    ILVUon June 06, 2007   Link
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    read an interview, Dia said that this song is about suicide.

    Marzyy123on September 01, 2007   Link
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    this song is definitely about suicide. a person is trying to convince their friend not to die because they need them and that there are things to live for life "bare feet in the summer, open windows at night". trivial things, but still brings some happiness to life.

    shananeron October 16, 2007   Link
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    yeah, this song is about suicide. they're just telling there friend that there not dead or not to die soon cause they still need them around still.

    Breakingbenjaminfanon November 07, 2007   Link
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    It's a classic suicide song. Hah, wow that sounds horrible.

    It's about someone trying to stop someone from killing themselves, and hoping that they get through to them in time. The singer still needs the person and is trying to show that, but the suicidal person seems to not see it or admit it.

    By the way, I saw them live with Angels & Airwaves on their Feb. 1 show at The Palladium in Dallas, and they sound even better live. Not only that, but they are absolutely beautiful.

    SirWinstonon February 13, 2008   Link
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    Oh and another cheery thought.

    "Stay awake, stay awake, survive"

    -Perhaps the means of suicide is a drug overdose?

    "I've got nineteen stars and I gave your name"

    -I interpreted this as kind of like wishing on a star. It made me think of the nineteen stars and then "giving the name", as in wishing on them that the suicidal person doesn't go through with it. She hopes it's enough to save them.

    SirWinstonon February 15, 2008   Link
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    the "nineteen stars" to me, like SirWinston, reminds me of making a wish or having luck, giving them hope, maybe.

    love the song, andmeg & dia, amazing artists.

    the big crunchon September 27, 2008   Link

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