If You're the North Star, I'm a Faulty Paper Lantern Lyrics

Driving past that one house

The balconies stack like novels I keep meaning to read

You make me feel like a fraud

If I was braver or dumber

I might say I love you for it

I'll try to figure out

What it is about the word love that makes my eyes well up with tears

My mask start to fall apart and split

And when a metaphor meets real life

I can't tell if that makes it better or worse

The narcissist in the back of my head insists

I'm not hopeless, I'm cursed

Time zones are just small scale astrology

And I'll sleep when I find a quieter chest

I'm a mess

But I'll look up to Polaris

And hope we'll see the same constellations in time

And time zones are the oceans between us

Set sail to the center, catch a moment

And I'll get lost at sea

Treasure hunting won't do much to find me

But get a wreck washed up on shore

And we can get some sleep

I know you know I do this

But you always said you don't pay attention to lyrics

So I wonder if you'll ever know that this one's about you

And I know it's a cliche to point out cliches

As some gesture at self awareness

So is it ironic that all I ever wanted to say

Is "you have really pretty eyes"

And my anxiety jumps teams between calling me

A coward and a nuisance

Overthinking every seasonal first word

Time zones are just small scale astrology

And I'll sleep when I find a quieter chest

I'm a mess

But I'll look up to Polaris

And hope we'll see the same constellations in time

And time zones are the oceans between us

Set sail to the center, catch a moment

And I'll get lost at sea

Treasure hunting won't do much to find me

But get a wreck washed up on shore

And we can get some sleep

We can get some sleep

You're moving up north in two months

We might never see each other again

I spent so long waiting for the future

That I forgot to make it happen

Effort is vulnerability

I've got the unfortunate condition of having

A heavy heart with no spine to support it

(Why's it even so fucking important?)

I'm sorry for the confusion

The awkward silences

The space

And what makes all this talk about

Distance and oceans and stars so pathetic

Is that, at least for now, you're only a few steps away