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Lost Stars Lyrics
There were still entire empires
of California highway
I wanted to share with you.
There were still foothills and fires,
and breakdowns on the runways,
I wanted to run with you.
Lost stars are coming on
Lost causes calling on
I was second college bound,
and dreaming of what could be,
wanting to move with you.
Watching concrete island towns,
and skyways full of palm trees
and walking along with you.
Lost stars are coming on
Lost causes calling on
Lost stars are coming on
Lost causes calling on
I found you like a culinary gem
in a stucco-pink strip mall,
I found you as the curtain’s coming
down on a melancholy romcom.
I found you in California.
of California highway
I wanted to share with you.
There were still foothills and fires,
and breakdowns on the runways,
I wanted to run with you.
Lost causes calling on
and dreaming of what could be,
wanting to move with you.
Watching concrete island towns,
and skyways full of palm trees
and walking along with you.
Lost causes calling on
Lost stars are coming on
Lost causes calling on
in a stucco-pink strip mall,
I found you as the curtain’s coming
down on a melancholy romcom.
I found you in California.
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So I haven't totally analyzed this, but the general impression I get is that he is imagining and wishing to share experiences he's having with an ex, but it's all second class. A culinary gem in a stucco pink strip mall? The end of a rom-com? It's all the best of the worst.
"I wanted to share" in the first stanza tells us this is the past, and he desired to share his California cruising with her. Pretty straight forward.
"I was second college bound, and dreaming of what could be, wanting to move with you." He gives a specific time in his past that he was wanting to spend time with her.
"I found you like a culinary gem in a stucco-pink strip mall, I found you as the curtain’s coming down on a melancholy romcom." Well, when you find a fine restaurant (culinary gem) in a dump (strip mall), it is a nice surprise, right? So, that is compared in a simile (uses "like").
All of it so far is just a recollection of how he felt at the beginning of the relationship. The tricky part is: "Lost stars are coming on/Lost causes calling on." End in sight? Fear? Self doubt? Does he think the Maroon 5 song "Lost Stars" is going to happen to them?