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The Irony of Stars and Wishes


There is an irony of Stars and Wishes You make a Wish, oh you wish so hard You want love and for your dreams to come true You cram all of your wishes into that Star But there are consequences… Because even stars fall They expire, they die So heavy with the burdens of their wishes They come crashing to the ground They fall in fire, defeated against gravity Your dreams lay broken and empty All scattered below And without that Star you are lost Where is your love? Where is your hope? What will you do? Where will you go? But somewhere else A one or two, a few or more They saw the Star burning in the atmosphere And made a wish as it fell Your wishes made it fall and they wish on its falling That is the irony of Stars and Wishes
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