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Chalk Stars Lyrics

Feel I'm

floating, floating and

Look up

and the sky was

broken, broken and

Woke up

and my hand was

open, open and so

And all you want is a rainbow,
and all you get is the rain.

I'll be drawing chalk stars, on a black board
seeing rainbows, in the raincloud.

Don't you know we all cry,
honey, sometime
when the sun goes down
when the sun goes down

Dreamt I

was a dark sky

and the dawn was breaking, and

Woke up

and my heart was,

aching. Honey it was aching, and so

And all you want is a rainbow,
and all you get is the rain.

And I'll be drawing chalk stars, on a black board
seeing rainbows, in the raincloud.

Don't you know we all cry,
honey, sometimes
when the cold light of day
is sleeping at the weel
is sleeping at the weel
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Cover art for Chalk Stars lyrics by Animal Kingdom

I think this song is about being depressed - "and all you want is a rainbow, and all you get is the rain" and in particular feeling depressed at night - "when the cold light of day is sleeping at the wheel" "when the sun goes down".

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I believe this song is about the elating feeling of love, but love that is unrequieted. At the beginning it is talking about floating like in a dream, maybe dreaming of the one you love who doesn't love you in return. The cold light of day is often used to mean the truth, and as the old light of day dawns, the truth comes out and causes great pain. The sun going down could mean the happiness that you feel in the dream ('sun') goes away as you wake up and the truth comes out to be replaced with the...

 
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