Stars

Grace, on a recent VH1 Storytellers, tells the meaning behind this song. She said it started as a song she was just writing about loss, but halfway through it she realized she was writing about a friend of hers. Her touching description was that her friend was out of control and compared it to a balloon you would lose as a kid, where you try to go up on a step, or a ladder to try and catch it before it was lost. That's where the lyric "if I know you at all, I know you've gone too far" comes from.

This to me is about loss and taking that loss very hard, to the point where one can't "look at the stars" because it's too painful.

This song is beautiful and simple, and Grace playing it on the piano is so beautiful!

Absolutely gorgeous song. Shows that young artists can write and sing beautiful songs. To me, the song is about remembering a loved one, who is lost to death, Alzheimer's, alcohol, drug, or otherwise.

This is such an amazing song! Nowhere near as acclaimed as it should be.

These lyrics resonated with me after loosing my person to suicide. The words “if I know you at all, I know you’ve gone too far” is what I’ve called out to him many times. Why did you go that far! It is hard to look around here, to look up. To be in this place alone. That is my version of meaning for this Grace Potter song.