I know the video shows a kid longing for his father but the lyrics IMHO are more relevant to romantic love gone awry. Saying "Burns half as long when it's twice as bright" it sounds like it was a particularly passionate love and ended up in conflict. "I'm trying to save us, you don't wanna save us" - one person really wants to fix things while the other doesn't. The singer keeps saying let's not give up and say it's hopeless, we can decide for ourselves rather than blame human nature.
Very sad song! Was listening to this at New Year's Eve looking at stars and fireworks while missing someone very much (someone who's also into stargazing, ironically). It seems more hopeless day by day so not sure how much longer I'll still be here stargazing after this one; maybe some stars do disappear :(
@jadepenguin that’s exactly what I was thinking too, just came on here to see if anyone else thought the same. Very sad song indeed. I was drawn to it cuz of a similar situation as you with a relationship where both of us like to stargaze and sometimes I can feel like we are burning twice as bright and I don’t want it to die :/
@jadepenguin that’s exactly what I was thinking too, just came on here to see if anyone else thought the same. Very sad song indeed. I was drawn to it cuz of a similar situation as you with a relationship where both of us like to stargaze and sometimes I can feel like we are burning twice as bright and I don’t want it to die :/
I know the video shows a kid longing for his father but the lyrics IMHO are more relevant to romantic love gone awry. Saying "Burns half as long when it's twice as bright" it sounds like it was a particularly passionate love and ended up in conflict. "I'm trying to save us, you don't wanna save us" - one person really wants to fix things while the other doesn't. The singer keeps saying let's not give up and say it's hopeless, we can decide for ourselves rather than blame human nature.
Very sad song! Was listening to this at New Year's Eve looking at stars and fireworks while missing someone very much (someone who's also into stargazing, ironically). It seems more hopeless day by day so not sure how much longer I'll still be here stargazing after this one; maybe some stars do disappear :(
@jadepenguin that’s exactly what I was thinking too, just came on here to see if anyone else thought the same. Very sad song indeed. I was drawn to it cuz of a similar situation as you with a relationship where both of us like to stargaze and sometimes I can feel like we are burning twice as bright and I don’t want it to die :/
@jadepenguin that’s exactly what I was thinking too, just came on here to see if anyone else thought the same. Very sad song indeed. I was drawn to it cuz of a similar situation as you with a relationship where both of us like to stargaze and sometimes I can feel like we are burning twice as bright and I don’t want it to die :/