Constellations Below
Guiding Lights in the Night Sky
Lyrics
Off the ground, but you'll never know
Despite being elevated, the true essence or achievement remains unrecognized.
How to cast a memorable glow
How to create a lasting or significant impact that is remembered.
Look on out your lofty window
Observing from a high position or perspective.
We're the constellations below
We, the ordinary people, exist beneath in the same way as constellations do in the sky.
Been a while since the diamond days have shone
It has been a long time since exceptional or brilliant times were experienced.
I died again, but I'm still not etched in stone
Despite facing difficulties or challenges, one's fate or legacy isn't set in stone.
Compass led me as west as it would go
Following a direction until it ceased and left one without guidance.
Until it stalled, directionless, and broke
Until it stopped, directionless, and failed.
As I did so
Reflecting the speaker's experience of faltering or breaking down.
Sought a sign on every city road
Searching for guidance or indication at every turn or opportunity.
But I found it when I paved my own
Realizing direction or purpose by making one's path.
Off the ground, but you'll never know
Similar to line 1, despite elevation, true impact remains unnoticed.
How to cast a comforting glow
How to emit a reassuring or consoling presence remains unknown.
Look on out your costly window
Looking out of an expensive or luxurious window at ordinary, humble existence below.
At humble constellations below
Similar to line 4, emphasizing the modest existence below.
Been a while since the firenights have glown
It's been a while since vibrant or intense times were experienced during the night.
But we are fueling a peerless inferno
Working together to fuel an unparalleled, remarkable force or passion.
Living for something greater than our own
Living for a purpose greater than personal interest or benefit.
Standing firm so we never ever go domino
Standing strong to avoid falling or collapsing like a domino.
So look inside yourself for a long-lost shine
Encouragement to explore one's inner potential or brilliance that has been forgotten.
And you might find that you will want to
Upon rediscovering that inner brilliance, one might desire to...
Off the ground, but you'll never know
Similar to lines 1 and 12, a repetition of being elevated but remaining unrecognized.
How to cast a memorable glow
How to create a lasting or significant impact that is remembered.
Throw the blinds across your window
Shutting off the view of the ordinary existence below, yet it remains.
Still, we're constellations below
Reiteration of the ordinary existence coexisting despite being unseen or unacknowledged.
Off the ground, how are you to know
Asking how one, elevated, can perceive acknowledgment or appreciation from others.
Whether others bask in your glow?
Questioning whether others recognize or appreciate one's brilliance or impact.
Cast pride right out the window
Suggesting the removal of arrogance or self-importance and joining the ordinary.
And join the constellations below
Encouraging leaving behind pride and joining the ordinary people below.
(It's oh so much brighter down here with us)
Expressing the heightened vibrancy or liveliness of the ordinary existence.
(No bridles out here where your head is clear)
Freedom and clarity experienced without restraints or limitations.
Can't hear with your head in the ozone
Being oblivious or disconnected due to being detached from reality.
Can't hear with your head in the ozone
Continuing obliviousness or detachment from reality due to disconnection.
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