Shooting Star

Love love love this song it’s so beautiful. I think it’s about a girl who’s somehow come into this guy’s life at a difficult time and it’s clear that they are attracted to each other and could be together but for whatever reason they can’t be. Maybe the guy is already in a relationship and whilst he is attracted to this new girl, he is happy with the girl he is already with hence finds it hard to choose between the two- he can’t seem to find the room for this new girl in his life because someone is already filling her place. If she had come into his life later perhaps he knows that if he wasn’t still with someone things may have been different. He can’t face losing her and he does want her in his life but he’s caught in the middle- he knows how she feels for him and that she’s his if he wants and he does care about her but the timing is all wrong and it seems impossible. He’s saying to her that although it all seems to be falling through, there’s nothing to say that they won’t be able to ‘piece it back together’ one day, learn to trust each other and perhaps eventually be together if the situation changes. He realizes that he would do anything for her- using the weather analogies- and that he needs her in his life to ‘teach [him] wrong from right’, but it’s not as easy as it should be and he has to sort out his feelings. Calling her his shooting star is perfect- he was stable in his life, or his ‘atmosphere’ until she came along unexpectantly and caught his attention- he knows she’s something special and he doesn’t want to lose her because perhaps it’s rare that someone makes such an impact on his life. I reckon he chooses this ‘shooting star’ eventually because he ‘can’t refuse’ even though he knows he’s risking his previous stability and security.