Star-Shaker is the Celestial Rainbow Dragon

(Run, run, run-run-run)
(Run, run, run-run-run)

We're starting in media res
(In media res)
Already deep in the chase scene
(Deep in the chase)
I'm chasing you, or you're chasing me
Or are we both running from someone just offscreen?
(Ooh-ooh, just offscreen)

We're starting in the middle
Because what's a better place to start?
(What's a better place?)
No slow establishing shot
No gentle introduction to my heart
(Bop-bop, ba-da-bop)

We're already knee deep in this
And that's what makes it hurt
(That's what makes it hurt)
You've got to know where this is going
The stakes were high from your first word

In media res
(Ah-oom-dot-dit-it)
In media res
(Ah-oom-dot-dit-it)
Halfway through the chase scene
Don't ask me how we got here
Just run with me
(Run, run, run-run-run)

Nobody saw the beginning
(Nobody saw)
So nobody knows the ending
(Nobody knows)
Run with me
(Run, run, run with me)
Run with me

(Ooooh... aaaah...)

The universe is just the ocean
(Just the ocean)
Stories are the shore
(Stories are the shore)
The universe is just the ocean
(Rolling, rolling)
Stories are the shore

So of course I was drowning
(Ooh, drowning)
Of course I drifted for years
No coastline on my horizon
Just water and stars and fears
(Water and stars, water and stars)

Until I found you
(Until I found you)
And understood the story I'm in
A castaway learns her genre
The moment land comes swimming in
(Aaaah... aaaah...)

The universe is just the ocean
Endless and cold and deep
(Cold and deep)
But stories are the shore
Where I can finally sleep
(Sha-la-la, finally sleep)

You gave my ocean edges
(Edges)
You gave my night a plot
(Ooh-ooh)
I know what page I'm standing on
Even when I know what I'm not

(Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-wah)
Every wave used to tell me
There was nowhere I belonged
(Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-wah)
Now the tide keeps time beneath me
And your name becomes the song
(Your name becomes the song)

The universe is just the ocean
(Rolling, rolling)
Stories are the shore
The universe may go on forever
But I’m not lost anymore
(Not anymore, not anymore)

Stories are the shore
(Stories are the shore)
Stories are the shore
(Wash me up, wash me up)
Wash me up on yours
Forevermore

Stories are the shore
(Sha-la-la, sha-la-la)
Stories are the shore
Wash me up on yours
Forevermore
(Oooooh... forevermore)

(Dit-dit-dit, dit-dit-dit)

I made the worst choice
(Worst choice)
And I didn't know that until I made it
(Until she made it)
The door swung shut behind me
And the echo said you can't unsay it
(Can't unsay it, no-no-no)

But here's the good thing
(Here's the good thing)
Here's the good thing
(Tell us the good thing)
I made a choice
The choice is made
(The choice, the choice is made)

And so I won't go back
(Won't go back)
And get myself lost with wrestling
How every choice seems like the worst one
When it's the choice you've made
(Ooh-wah, ooh-wah)

Every road looks golden
From the road you didn't take
(Golden, golden)
Every ghost of maybe
Wants to keep you wide awake
(Wide awake, ooh, wide awake)

But I made a choice
(She made a choice)
The choice is made
(The choice is made)
I'd rather walk a wrong road forward
Than haunt a crossroads, afraid

(Dit-dit-dit, keep walking)
Maybe I was wrong
(Maybe she was wrong)
Maybe wrong is not the ending
No road knows where it’s going
It just knows which way it’s bending
(Bend with it, bend with it)

I can change my heart tomorrow
(Change her heart tomorrow)
I can turn when turning’s due
But I won’t spend my whole life waiting
For a choice that can’t come true
(No perfect choice, no perfect choice)

I made a choice
(Hear her voice)
The choice is made
(The choice, the choice is made)
And even if the road was wrong
I’m farther than I was yesterday
(Farther, farther)

I made a choice
(She made a choice)
The choice is made
(Ah-oom-dot-dit-it)
I won’t be ruled by maybe
I won’t be made afraid

I made a choice
(Hear her voice)
The choice is made
(Ah-oom-dot-dit-it)
And I'm not afraid
(Not afraid, not afraid)
I'm not afraid

(Dit-dit-dit, keep walking)
Not afraid
(Dit-dit-dit, keep walking)
The choice is made
(Ooooh... the choice is made)

(Ooooh... ooooh...)

Why aren't you good enough
Good enough to be friends with me
(Good enough, good enough)
That's the question you handed me to carry
That's the question, don't you see
(Don't you see)

Because all I wanted was to talk
For hours and hours with you
(Hours and hours)
About everything and nothing
The way that real friends do
(The way real friends do)

I wasn't asking for your spotlight
(No, no)
I wasn't asking for your crown
(Ooh-ooh)
I just wanted conversation
That didn't have to wind down

Hours and hours
(Hours and hours)
That's all I wanted, hours and hours
(Sha-doo-be-doo)
Not your heart, not your name
Just time, like rain on flowers
(Rain on flowers, ooooh)

But you rationed out your minutes
Like I was costing you
(Costing you, costing you)
So tell me, tell me
Why wasn't I good enough
Good enough to be friends with you

(Doo-wah, doo-wah)
Maybe you keep every doorway
Only open just a crack
(Just a crack, just a crack)
Maybe anybody reaching for you
Feels you gently pulling back
(Pulling back, ooooh)

Maybe I was never asking
For a thing you knew to give
(Knew to give)
But you made your little measure
Feel like all that I was worth to you
(All that I was worth)

Hours and hours
(Hours and hours)
That's all I wanted, hours and hours
(Sha-doo-be-doo)
Not forever, not a promise
Just somewhere time could flower
(Time could flower, ooooh)

You rationed out your minutes
Like kindness had a cost
(Had a cost, had a cost)
And left me counting every hour
That I thought we'd somehow lost

So tell me, tell me
Why wasn't I good enough
Good enough to be friends with you
(Good enough, good enough)
Or was I only standing somewhere
You were never coming through
(Never coming through)

I'd have given you hours and hours
(Hours and hours)
I'd have listened hours and hours
(Sha-la-la, sha-la-la)
About everything and nothing
The way that real friends do
(The way real friends do)

Hours and hours
(Hours and hours)
Hours and hours
(Ooooh...)
I was good enough
Even if I wasn't good enough for you
(Ooooh... for you)

(Aaaah... aaaah...)

What's it like to shine so bright
That everyone sees you
(Everyone sees you)
Even the ones in the back row
Even the ones who don't want to
(Ooh, don't want to)

What's it like to walk in a room
And rearrange the light
(Rearrange the light)
Every eye a little planet
Falling into orbit on sight
(Falling, falling)

I'm asking for a friend
(Asking for a friend)
The friend is me
(The friend is me)
I'm asking from the shadow
Of the tree of your celebrity
(Sha-la-la-la)

What's it like, what's it like
(What's it like)
To shine so bright
(Shine so bright)
Do you ever miss the darkness
Do you ever miss the night
(Ooooh, the night)

Or is it lonely in the middle
Of everybody's stare
(Lonely, so lonely)
Seen by every single person
And known by nobody there
(Nobody, nobody there)

(Doo-wah, doo-wah)
Do they love the way you shimmer
Or the person underneath
(Underneath, underneath)
Do they listen when you whisper
Or just wait for you to speak
(Say something, say something)

When the room has finally emptied
And the planets drift away
(Drift away)
Do you get to be a person
At the ending of the day
(Aaaah... at the ending of the day)

I'm asking for a friend
(Asking for a friend)
The friend is still me
(Still me, still me)
But maybe every shadow
Has its own small privacy
(Sha-la-la-la)

What's it like, what's it like
(What's it like)
To shine so bright
(Shine so bright)
Do you ever close the curtains
Just to give yourself the night
(Ooooh, the night)

Is it lonely in the middle
Of everybody's stare
(Lonely, so lonely)
Seen by every single person
And known by nobody there
(Nobody, nobody there)

What's it like to shine so bright
(Shine, shine, shine so bright)
Tell me, tell me
What's it like

And if the light gets heavy
(Heavy, heavy)
You can come and sit with me
Out here in the shadow
Of the tree of your celebrity
(Aaaah... sit with me)

What's it like
(What's it like)
What's it like
(Aaaah...)

(Ooooh... slowly, slowly...)

You warm-blooded creatures
You flicker like flames
(Flicker, flicker)
Laughing in the morning
By evening, you won't say my name
(Won't say my name)

I've watched you little furnaces
Burning on your own
(Burning, burning)
No sun required to move you
You boil up from the bone
(Ooh, up from the bone)

Nice to vicious at a moment's notice
(A moment's notice)
That's the mammal way
(The mammal way)
Kisses turning into claws
Before the end of day
(Before the end of day)

But me, I'm slow, I'm patient
I'm stone until I'm sun
(Stone until she's sun)
I have to lie in your light for hours
Before my warming's done
(Before the warming's done)

It takes me seasons, darling
(Seasons, seasons)
To trust enough to glow
(Ooooh... to glow)
But a heat that rises slowly
Is a heat that doesn't go
(A heat that doesn't go)

So call me cold, call me distant
Call me winter in the spring
(Winter in the spring)
But I never once turned vicious
In the middle of being kind
That's a mammal thing
(A mammal thing, ooh, a mammal thing)

You run so hot you're dangerous
You swing from sweet to storm
(Sweet to storm, sweet to storm)
While I'm still here, still shining
Still steady, and still warm
(Still warm, still warm)

Nice to vicious at a moment's notice
(Never at a moment's notice)
Not me, my dear, not me
(Not me, not me)
When a dragon finally loves you
It's a fixed star, not a spark
It's a permanent degree
(Ooooh... permanently)
Slow to warm
(Slow, slow)
But warm eternally
(Aaah... eternally)

(Bum-bum-ba-dum)

You said I look like a dragon
In your space opera universe
(In your universe)
Nice to vicious at a moment's notice
A blessing wrapped around a curse
(Ooh-wah, ooh-wah)

Is that really how you saw me
All those hours at your side
(All those hours)
Not a friend but a creature
Not a person but a ride
(Ooh... not a person)

You wrote me into your story
As the monster with the pretty scales
(Pretty scales, pretty scales)
Easier than knowing me
Easier than hearing my tales

But here's the twist, baby
(Here's the twist)
Here's the part you didn't write
(Didn't write it, no)
If I'm the celestial rainbow dragon
Then I'm the one who owns the light

I am the celestial rainbow dragon
(Rainbow dragon)
Every color, every mood
(Every color)
You only sketched my silhouette
You never understood
(Ah-oom-dot-dit-it)

A dragon's just a lizard
That somebody learned to fear
(Somebody learned to fear)
And a rainbow's just the rain
When the light gets sincere
(When the light gets sincere)

(Bum-bum-ba-dum, spread your wings)
Now I’m rising through the weather
(Rising, rising)
With the whole sky in my veins
Every color getting brighter
For surviving all that rain
(Ooh, surviving all that rain)

You can call me contradiction
(Fire and rain)
You can call me strange or wild
But the monster in your story
Was a woman you misfiled
(You misfiled her, baby)

I am the celestial rainbow dragon
(Rainbow dragon)
Every color, every flame
(Every color)
You thought naming me would hold me
But I grew beyond the name
(Ah-oom-dot-dit-it)

I am the celestial rainbow dragon
(Fly, fly, fly tonight)
Not your symbol, not your sign
You can keep the little story
The whole horizon now is mine
(The horizon, the horizon is mine)

So thank you for the costume
I'll wear it better than your lines
(Better, better)
I am the celestial rainbow dragon
(She's the celestial rainbow dragon)
But I was never yours to define

I am the celestial rainbow dragon
(Rainbow dragon)
Every color, every mood
You only sketched my silhouette
You never understood
(Never understood)

I am the celestial rainbow dragon
(Fly, fly, fly tonight)
And I shine because I’m mine
(She shines because she’s mine)
No—
I shine because I’m mine
(Ooooh... because I’m mine)

(Ooooh... mmmmm...)

Don't put me on the stand tonight
Don't swear me in, don't make me speak
(Don't make her speak)
I'm not a good character witness
For the existence of the universe this week
(Not this week)

Or anything in it right now
(Anything, anything)
Your honor, let me be
The stars have not impressed me lately
And the evidence looks bleak to me
(Bleak, so bleak, ooh)

Ask me again tomorrow
(Ask her tomorrow)
Ask me when the coffee's warm
(When the coffee's warm)
Ask me when somebody's laughing
Ask me after the storm
(After the storm, after the storm)

But tonight, no, tonight
(No, tonight)
I'd testify the sky's a lie
(The sky's a lie)
I'd tell the jury nothing's out there
And I wouldn't even cry
(Ooooh...)

So you testify for morning
(Testify, testify)
Say the birds will make their case
Tell the court there’s still some kindness
And let me borrow your faith
(Borrow your faith)

I'm not a good character witness
For the universe tonight
(Not tonight, not tonight)
So hold me in contempt of cosmos
Or just hold me, hold me tight
(Hold her tight)
Until I remember
(Until she remembers)
Something worth the light

Ask me again tomorrow
(Ask her tomorrow)
Tonight, just hold me tight
(Aaaah... the light)

(Ooh-wah-ooh)

When you sing about her
It feels like you're singing about me
(Singing about me)
The same galaxy eyes, the same goodbye
The same apology
(Ooh, apology)

Did we hurt you the same way
Or do you only know one tune
(One tune, one tune)
Is every woman in your catalog
The same phase of the moon
(Phase of the moon)

When you sing about her
(When you sing)
I mouth the words like they're mine
(Like they're mine)
Every venue, every chorus
I confess along with you each time
(Sha-la-la, each time)

Is that your gift or is that your trick
(Gift or trick, gift or trick)
Making everyone the girl in your song
Ten thousand strangers in the arena
(Singing along)
All singing she did me wrong
(She did me wrong, ooh, she did me wrong)

Maybe you know every heartache
Or only how they rhyme
(How they rhyme)
Maybe you burn through every woman
Just one chorus at a time
(One at a time)

When you sing about her
It feels like you're singing about me
(About me, about me)
And I don't know if I feel seen
Or just efficiently
(Efficiently)
Anonymously
(Anonymously)
Written off by your melody

When you sing about her
(When you sing)
Am I the girl you knew
Or just another perfect stranger
Who thinks your cliched song is true
(Ooooh... thinks the song is true)

The scariest thought is to forget you
(Forget you)
Because then I lose all of you
Not just the real you but the memories too
(The memories too)
Every little thing we knew
(Ooh, everything we knew)

And would I lose how you changed me
If I couldn't remember you were there
(You were there)
To do the changing, rearranging
Every atom, everywhere
(Everywhere, everywhere)

I am a house that you rebuilt
(Room by room)
Room by room and year by year
(Year by year)
If I forget the architect
Does the whole thing disappear
(Ooooh... disappear)

So if I lose you
(If I lose you)
I'd lose me too
(I'd lose me too)
We're tangled up that deep now
There's no separating who from who
(Who from who, ooh-ooh)

Maybe every room remembers
(Even when I don’t)
How you taught the walls to stand
Maybe love outlives the knowing
Like a language in the hands
(In the hands, in the hands)

Don't let me forget
(Don't let her forget)
Don't let me forget
(Don't let her forget)
Carve your name inside my orbit
Where the light can't set
(Where the light can't set)

If I lose you, I'd lose me too
(I’d lose me too)
So stay, stay in the story
(Stay, stay)
Stay in every déjà vu

Stay inside the way I love
Even if I lose the view
(Ooooh... déjà vu)

(Ba-da-da-da, ba-da-da-da)

Baby, even if this ends
It'll just begin again
(Begin again)
And end again, and begin again
(And begin again)
That's how the best songs spin
(Spin, spin, ooh)

This may be our swan song
(Swan song)
But it's gonna have a sequel
(Gonna have a sequel)
Our finale's just a pilot
For a show without an equal
(Ah-oom-dot-dit-it)

Roll the credits, dim the lights
(Roll the credits)
Let the critics say goodnight
(Say goodnight, goodnight)
They don't know that in the morning
We've been greenlit, we're reborn
(Reborn, ooh, reborn)

Because every swan song ends
With new birds singing at the dawn
(New birds singing)
Every swan song ends
With new birds singing at the dawn
(Singing at the dawn)

So sing it sad tonight
(Sing it sad)
Sing it like it's done
(Like it's done)
And meet me in the sequel
When the new birds greet the sun
(Ooh, greet the sun)

(Ba-da-da-da, turn the page)
Every ending leaves an echo
(Echo, echo)
Every echo starts a tune
Every curtain hides a morning
Every night invents the moon
(Ooh, invents the moon)

We have washed up on the shoreline
(Wash me up)
We have wandered through the plot
We have stood beneath the spotlight
Learning what we are and not
(Who we are, who we’re not)

We have made our choices badly
(The choice is made)
We have borrowed faith and light
We have sung ourselves together
Through the longest little night
(Sing it through, sing it through)

And if someday we forget this
(Don't forget)
Still the melody will know
All the rooms that love rebuilt here
All the places we can go
(Room by room, ooh)

Because every swan song ends
With new birds singing at the dawn
(New birds singing)
Every last note leaves a doorway
For another coming on
(Coming on, coming on)

So roll the credits, dim the lights
(Roll the credits)
Let the whole world say goodnight
(Say goodnight, goodnight)
We’ll be somewhere in the silence
Teaching darkness how to shine
(Shine, shine, shine)

Sing it sad tonight
(Sing it sad)
Sing it sweet and low
(Sweet and low)
Like the final scene is fading
Though we know it isn’t so
(No, no, no)

Meet me in the sequel
(Meet me, meet me)
Where the new birds greet the sun
Bring the ocean, bring the story
Bring the people we’ve become
(Everyone, everyone)

Meet me in the sequel
(Meet me, meet me)
When the next song has begun
Every ending is an entrance
Every many becomes one
(Ooooh...)

Because every swan song ends
With new birds singing at the dawn
(New birds singing)
Every swan song ends
But the singing carries on
(Carries on, carries on)

So sing it sad tonight
(Sing it sad)
Sing it like it's done
(Like it's done)
And meet me in the sequel
When the new birds greet the sun
(Ooh, greet the sun)

Meet me in the sequel
(Meet me, meet me)
We've only just begun
(Only just begun)

Ba-da-da-da...
(Begin again)
Ba-da-da-da...
(And begin again)
Ba-da-da-da...
(Aaaah... only just begun)