A Star's Lament - Melanie Penn

You think that it's easy

Being a star

Not the kind in the movies

I'm the kind in the dark

Night sky above you

A flickering light

But I got typical problems

I've been left hanging here tonight

You'd never see me

With your telescope

You'd never know me

But ten thousand years ago

I started trying to reach you

I been trying to arrive

A lotta lightyears to go thru

A lotta galaxies to go by

I'm not just another pretty face

On a star

I shake and I shiver here up in space

But I do my part

Not in a constellation

No I never quite fit in

I got typical problems

Up here alone is where I've been

Up here alone

Alone up here

You know it's always nighttime

In the milky way

A lot of dreaming down time

About my younger days

I was really something

I was gonna become a sun

I got typical problems

I wanna tell ya about every one

And oh I'm not just another pretty face

On a star

I shake and I shiver here up in space

But I do my part

And you make all your wishes

On my demise

But I had a wish too

To be your morning light

And you'd wake up to me

I'd wake up next to you

And your typical problems

Yeah I got problems too

We do

Yes we do we do

Yes we do

We do

Yes we do we do

Yes we do

We do

We do we do

We d