Verse 1:
I feel overwhelmed by the stars
You shine extra bright, blinding me
The stars take over my brain, distracting me
But I can’t afford these starry distractions
I got too much on my mind, and you take up too much space
So please dim the stars, please dim the stars
Pre Chorus:
You’re scared of me, but you still come over
It’s confusing, and what you do don’t help
Because the stars keep destroying my brain
Chorus:
This is a song of stars, confusing stars
Your dark eyes stare into mine
The stars keep crashing through my mind
And I can’t shut ‘em out, despite how hard I try
You pry deeper, deeper, deeper
With your questions, questions, questions
I want to trust you, trust you, trust you, but the stars still confuse me too much
Verse 2:
I ain’t good with love, and you make it worse
My sanity? Gone, thanks a lot
Barely had any before, but you ruined what was left
You’re ruining my life, please leave me alone
Except that I can’t seem to let you go
And I doubt you care ‘bout me, so why do I feel this way?
Pre Chorus:
You’re scared of me, but you still come over
It’s confusing, and what you do don’t help
Because the stars keep destroying my brain
Chorus:
This is a song of stars, confusing stars
Your dark eyes stare into mine
The stars keep crashing through my mind
And I can’t shut ‘em out, despite how hard I try
You pry deeper, deeper, deeper
With your questions, questions, questions
I want to trust you, trust you, trust you, but the stars still confuse me too much
Verse 3:
You wonder why I'm so violent, and you actually seem to care why
But I’m always on guard, and I don’t know if I can tell you
About why my defenses are up and why I always fight
I always have my reasons, and in this case they’re not good
But for some reason, I wanna tell you
Yet I know that I can’t
Bridge:
I doubt you like me, like me, like me
And if you do, then I can’t tell
Because I’m just too confused
And I’m more of a black hole, not an entire galaxy
Like you
Pre Chorus:
You’re scared of me, but you still come over
It’s confusing, and what you do don’t help
Because the stars keep destroying my brain
Chorus:
This is a song of stars, confusing stars
Your dark eyes stare into mine
The stars keep crashing through my mind
And I can’t shut ‘em out, despite how hard I try
You pry deeper, deeper, deeper
With your questions, questions, questions
I want to trust you, trust you, trust you, but the stars still confuse me too much
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Hey, short review here. I really like this, using stars and space in songs is always a solid stylistic choice. However I LOVE this line: "And I`m more of a black hole, not an entire galaxy like you." It´s written in such an honest and beautifully raw way. My only critisism is that you maybe overdid it a little with the repition, it is useful, yes, also commonly used in music. Here however the single lyrics are just too long for the chorus and a few words in particular to be repeated quite this often. Nevertheless, this is a great Song!
A very short review for you here.
This is a really good song in my opinion. It is a bit generic, yes, but it also expresses that feeling really well. If you were to sing this, I would think this is perfect. It has the tinges of an adolescent's self-questioning and the feeling that this poem gives is very real. I would say that, as a poet, you're on the right path.
Now, I must admit, I haven't written a poem. I know none of the technicalities of poetry. I just try to find a meaning and just try to guess what vibe it is and would it be good if sung.
So, yeah, this review might be not useful at all, but, alas, here is it.
Thanks
Thanks for the review!
Hello, Lorde here with a review!
Now, I’m not sure how you imagine the rhythm, so I’m not focusing on that. I liked how you approached this by comparing a crush to stars. Stars are bright and known for being beautiful, but they’re unimaginably far away. It almost creates a dilemma, the chance for something more intriguing but so impossible to reach. Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I find it clever nonetheless. Moving on, you managed to build a nice little conflict in the song. The narrator wants to give in to these stars but is afraid of what would happen. That’s an excellent basis for an internal conflict, and you didn't just limit it to the chorus. All in all, you will your song was good, and I hope to see more from you.
Thanks for the review!
Hello! I hope you are having a good day or night, depending on whenever you are reading this!
First things, the figurative language used in this piece was fantastic! The line where the speaker likened themselves to a black hole really stood out to me. It reflects on how the speaker feels of themselves, perhaps their doubt and fear over whether they deserved the other person.
I did, however, feel that perhaps you could work on your rhythm a tad bit. A few lines here and there threw me off here and there, and took me out of the song.
But other than that, this poem was great! You did an awesome job, and I hope to see more works from you in the future! Keep on writing!
Thanks for the review!
Yeah, you're right, I need to work on the rhythm.
Thank you, and I hope you have a great rest of your day!
You too!
Hi there, FourLeafClover!
This song made me feel the speaker’s intense disorientation. I thought the voice came across as conversational – I could easily imagine this being sung to acoustics with a solo singer. The things that stood out to me the most was the repetition and the star imagery.
Subject, Themes, Narrative
From what I gather, the song is about the speaker’s feelings towards their crush. There’s the sense of uncertainty and fear of uncertainty, I think, especially in the following lines.
The speaker also describes these feelings as “confusing”, which is what leads me to think they’re afraid, almost.
By the end of the song, it seems the speaker ‘loses’ the fight trying to let themselves trust in this other person, but through the song they explore why they feel this way towards them in a way that seems rumination-like, like they’re asking themselves the same thing repeatedly, which is reflected in the structure of the song.
Language and Imagery
I noticed that the addressee is contrasted with the speaker using brightness. The addressee of the song is an “entire galaxy” of stars, and in the beginning the speaker asks them to “dim the stars”. The “dim the stars” line was actually one of my favourites – I just like the idea of describing the stars like electric lamps and also the repetition of “please” particularly works there, because it gives the impression of begging (making the emotions seem all the more intense!).
Although most of the lyrics are written in direct, straightforward language (which I think is mostly par for the course for this type of song), the star/ cosmic motif seems quite present throughout. I read the following as a subtle reference to that “galaxy” metaphor:
Structure and Sound
In the chorus, there are some bits of rhyme and assonance I thought made it pleasing to say aloud. The partial rhyme here, for instance:
At first I thought ‘no matter how hard I try’ seemed more natural here, but combined with the line after that, the “despite” actually creates a nice repetition of the [d] sound.
As I said earlier, the repetition is a key feature I noticed in these lyrics. For instance, the words “stars” And “distract” are reused rather than rephrased from the first line below to the second line.
This reads like a tautology of sorts to me, as if to emphasise how the speaker is thinking over the same problems and feeling the same feelings over and over again.
The same technique seems to appear in:
“ruin” as a root word is used twice without trying to rephrase it.
Besides this, the repetition of (b) in “Because the stars keep destroying my brain” is really neat. It sounds especially nice to me because this refrain is repeated in the last line of the ‘stanzas’ that it appears in, and the (b) sounds are located at the beginning and end of the line, so it has this sense of finality.
That's all
Feel free to ask anything, if some of what I rambled doesn’t seem to make sense. Hopefully you found these comments helpful - and keep writing!
Cheers,
-Lim
Thanks for the review!
Yeah, you're right about the whole mood thingy. I'm glad that it worked out!
And you're also right about the "ruin" thing, I should go in and change that.
Thanks!