Unhook The Stars

this song is brilliant & people should really comment something about it, or at least listen to it!

"waiting in the wings made me drunk with possibilities, it rivals my memories."

i'd quote more but i'd be quoting the entire song.

One of the most beautiful and haunting songs of all time. I heard it first as the theme tune to the film of the same name. I stood in the cinema at the end and just listened.

Last year i separated from my wife and this song perfectly desribes the experience. The sadness of an ending but the possibilities that open up. I never did work out the exact meaning of 'unhook the stars'. I always took it to mean pack up and move on.

To me, it’s like she didn’t want to stay and watch something beautiful fall apart, although she may have known that it was and there was nothing she could do. Things fall apart. But she almost didn’t want to watch it fall apart because the stars were once so bright (her love was), or she saw it that way. And I think maybe she still loves this person, but not in the same way, and she’s sorry it has to be over because it was so great, she didn’t want to unhook the stars with them. But she is also content with what is happening and hopeful. I don't know, this kind of means to me that she thought everything was beautiful but she just didn't feel the same and she's sorry she is unhooking the stars with her relationship or whatever, but she is open and looking and hopeful and ready for something else maybe. She says she's not running away or sad, which is why I think she's content. She said she kept all his letter though, which to me shows that he still has meaning to her, but as I said not in the same way. I don't know, just my interpretation! This song really speaks to me.

I think the meaning of unhook the stars is a lot darker than you think , when Cyndi Lauper broke up with her boyfriend and lived in a hotel , she became depressed and drank a lot . She was also suicidal and thought jumping from her hotel room . So I guess unhook the stars , is that she wanted to turn the lights out. It’s funny as I’m in the same situation at the present time . I am separated and have addiction problems , but I’m not suicidal . I could be wrong , but that’s how I interpreted it on first listen, because I remembered about her difficult time in that hotel .