Wandering Star

Want so much more than I got
Got so much I don't want
I'm a wandering star
But after the fire a still small voice
"Yea, though I walk in the awareness of my heart"
Chemistry of stars
Alchemy of art

Gotta step lightly for a while now
I have it on authority
Looking backwards gets you pillar of salt
Looking up, see the void beyond the vault
Stare at the mirror, make sounds of self-pity
Half-smile of pleasure, or a grimace
At the indolent, too-beautiful sky, tonight over the city

And if the shortest distance between two points turns out to be
Wrong way down a one-way street
My straight-to-cable dreams
Will be fillеd with all the hissing and the weeping
Of the stеam from a radiator bleeding

Did you get mean? Are you mad?
Are you wishing for the things you never had?
It's too bad, it's too late
Too much money in what other people hate
Even more in their dreams of escape
Mistook a porthole for a portal and escaped

Into the outrageous sea, bleak, wasteful and wild
Thick swarming now with complicated monsters
The longest walk, the straightest line
Is between the soon-to-be bounced and the bouncers
Gotta step lightly for a while now
I have it on authority
Looking backwards gets you pillar of salt
Looking up, perceive the void beyond the vault
Stare at the mirror, make sounds of shame
Half-smile or a grimace of pity
At the indolent, beautiful sky stretched out tonight over the city
At the indolent, too-beautiful sky that's out tonight over the city