My personal interpretation, which though very contrived in order to fit my personal experience (what I wanted to hear) I think works quite well. Such is the beauty of abstract lyrics. Maybe someone has had a similar experience.
This ship is taking me far away < Ship being a metaphor for being in love
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die < So absorbed in it that you only think about your love, a love in which the speaker is uncertain if the beloved still feels anything themselves (they are "star-crossed"), mentally abandoning all of the people who you know love you (family, friends)
I will be chasing a starlight
Until the end of my life < starlight = true love, hope, happiness, etc. < This is especially meaningful to me because I actually have a tattoo of the image in this version of "The Star": http://www.ciromarchetti.com/ciromarchetti/Tarot_of_Dreams.html#9 to represent exactly those things.
Let's conspire to ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive < The souls in question being all of the "romantics", hopefully including these two. Ignite = spark true love.
Now I'll never let you go
If you promised not to fade away < The promise in question not being an actual delivered promise; simply poetic license of "I'll never let you go if you never fade away" = "Regardless of what happens as long as your memory is still with me I will never let go of these feelings"
I just wanted to hold you in my arms < Possibly still more a metaphor for making and truly feeling the connection of mutual, everlasting love. Possibly literal, and therefore an exercise in understatement.
Our hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations < Both too perfectly abstract and multi-layered to try to reduce into any truly literal thought, and I think somehow completely self-explanatory in this context (Another beauty of the well-composed abstract)
My personal interpretation, which though very contrived in order to fit my personal experience (what I wanted to hear) I think works quite well. Such is the beauty of abstract lyrics. Maybe someone has had a similar experience.
This ship is taking me far away < Ship being a metaphor for being in love Far away from the memories Of the people who care if I live or die < So absorbed in it that you only think about your love, a love in which the speaker is uncertain if the beloved still feels anything themselves (they are "star-crossed"), mentally abandoning all of the people who you know love you (family, friends)
I will be chasing a starlight Until the end of my life < starlight = true love, hope, happiness, etc. < This is especially meaningful to me because I actually have a tattoo of the image in this version of "The Star": http://www.ciromarchetti.com/ciromarchetti/Tarot_of_Dreams.html#9 to represent exactly those things.
Let's conspire to ignite All the souls that would die just to feel alive < The souls in question being all of the "romantics", hopefully including these two. Ignite = spark true love.
Now I'll never let you go If you promised not to fade away < The promise in question not being an actual delivered promise; simply poetic license of "I'll never let you go if you never fade away" = "Regardless of what happens as long as your memory is still with me I will never let go of these feelings"
I just wanted to hold you in my arms < Possibly still more a metaphor for making and truly feeling the connection of mutual, everlasting love. Possibly literal, and therefore an exercise in understatement.
Our hopes and expectations, black holes and revelations < Both too perfectly abstract and multi-layered to try to reduce into any truly literal thought, and I think somehow completely self-explanatory in this context (Another beauty of the well-composed abstract)
So that's what it is to me anyway.