The Truest Stars We Know Lyrics
Someone gets to be the river, someone is the sea
Someone gets to be the fire, someone is the leaves
And someone's walking in the morning light and calling to it cold
Everybody moves beneath the truest stars they know
Jesus and his trophy wives are praying for the suicides and the orphans
Save us all from what we want, beautiful and beaten back to life
Someone has the door to heaven, someone has the lock
Someone has to be the dog when someone has to walk
And someone's talking to the miles around and hearing them for good
Everybody's branch is falling harder than they should
And I know Jesus and his trophy wives are praying for the broken to be noticed
Save us all from what we want, beautiful and beaten back to life
Back to life
Back to life
I think this song is an ode to the people of the world lost in the underbelly of things, those who get the worse end of the stick because between two people, someone has to win and someone has to lose. He's singing about the tiresome struggle of these lost people, who call out for help and it seems even the divine can only pray that they're granted some mercy. Rivers lose their individuality merging into the sea, leaves have to burn up to provide warmth, when there is a door of opportunity there is always a lock, an obstacle, and in any competition for something in life there's the dove who is taken down and the hawk who conquers. These poor people only ever lose their identities, their substance, their chances, and even their lives trying to go after what would make them happy.
When he says, "Everybody moves beneath the truest stars they know," I think he means that people just try to live their life by what they think makes sense, and that it's simply tragic when nothing seems to work in our lives because even when we believe we're doing the right things, we can still fail and lose everything.