When the stars refuse to align,
some might wait
wait for them to fall into place
or leave them be;
watch them drift away,
a chance lost to realms unknown

The fault lies in the cosmos,
the world will say,
and fate is a cruel mistress

But when the wind blows,
I will stand my ground
I am not a tide,
and the moon cannot move me

So I’ll ****** my hands through the clouds,
seize the cosmic strings,
and pull them into place

The cosmos has no say
and I will not let you float away.

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"

But what if the world ends tomorrow?
All the things left unsaid
All the kisses never given
All the moments never shared—
Where will they go?
Will they hover in the air
In the stagnant debris
Of a world ended?
All the things we held back
When we thought we had
All the time in the world
Will float aimlessly
Waiting for a place to land
But there is no place to land
For the world has ended
There is nowhere left to go

If I wait to say I love you
I might wake up one morning
And find you’re no longer there
And the flowers hidden in my closet
Will have nowhere to go
And if I wait to say I’m sorry
You might never know
And if the world ends tomorrow,
You might never hold me again
What if we kissed for the last time?
What if the last words we said
Echo through a lost eternity?
I would rather have made a million mistakes
Than stand in black
Holding a rose you never saw

Pebbles are the ocean’s stars
Little treasures from her home
The tide rolls in like a child’s palm
And hands us these small stones

They’re smooth and dull and small
And not at all celestial
But stars cannot be skipped or held
And stones are just as special

They don’t glimmer like the stars
And they won’t grant your wishes
But they roll in in multitudes
Like a thousand ocean kisses

And just like the bright stars
Look watchful from above you
The ocean gives us pebbles
As a way to say “I love you”