from City Pages:
De Lune wrote the elegantly fragile “Stop the Stars” about an emotional moment in a bar late on election night 2016, as she watched the results terrify a family of undocumented immigrants who worked in the kitchen.
“All the boundaries just fell down that night,” de Lune says. “It...
[Intro]
To hold on, to hold
[Verse 1]
Try to keep you safe from harm
Try to keep it straight
(Keep my head on)
But it cuts so deep and it hurts so hard
And I cannot stop the stars that fall
[Pre-Chorus]
If I could hold you in my arms
If I could stave it all off
I would keep you close
I would stop them all
They would never find you
[Chorus]
To hold on, to hold on
To hold on, to hold
[Verse 2]
I don’t know where the dark comes from
I don’t know how to keep the light I’ve found
I don’t know how you shine even now
I don’t know how
[Chorus]
I don’t know how to hold on now
I don’t know how
Tiny Deaths released Stop the Stars on Fri Sep 21 2018.