Dancing Star Art by Adrian Raceanu

Star on the edge of the dark, hold still for me No drifting, no blur, no changing your tune I want that kind of steady in my own skin Something that lasts through the whole of the room Not alone up there, cold and distant But close enough to feel, close enough to trust Resting against the warm beat of her body Learning how to stay when the world kicks up dust [Chorus] Stay with me, stay with me Even when the hours pull hard at the seams Keep your light, keep your shape I want to be the same when the crowd all leaves [Verse 2] I sat through the charts, the lines, the numbers Rows on rows till my head went slack Too many names, too much talk in the hallway Too much of the room, not enough of the sky back So I stepped outside where the air was cooler No speeches, no pointers, no polished display Just the slow black field and the old bright markers And the hard little truth they had nothing to say [Chorus] Stay with me, stay with me Even when the hours pull hard at the seams Keep your light, keep your shape I want to be the same when the crowd all leaves [Bridge] I don’t need a map for every motion I don’t need a crowd to tell me what I saw One quiet look was enough to break me open One clean night, and I was listening after all [Final Chorus] Stay with me, stay with me Hold your place in the dark, don’t fold If I can learn that kind of patience Maybe I won’t feel so worn, so old And if I have to choose one way to live Let it be this: looking up, not away With the room gone soft and the world gone still And the stars above me, plain as day