Light Pollution

It’s long past sunset
The weather’s less than mild
I gotta walk, but most of where I go is
Less than a mile away, and I
Miss the quiet
I miss the dark
I miss the things we had before we fell apart
In the shadows of the flicker-fading
There’s no one celebrating
There’s no more solstices
You wonder why that is
When all of us don’t like how the world turns
Plotting out our lives on detailed charts
Though some of you may want the world to burn
The rest of us wish we could see the stars
Though its hard to see through all the fake lights
But the stars are out tonight
The stars are out tonight
The stars are out tonight
Tripping on pavement cracks
Sidewalk’s uneven
The faces come and go
But there all talking leaving
'cause they say they hate it here
I wouldn’t disagree
But if you think the skies are clearer there
You’ll be lost when all you see are
Shadows in the flicker-fading
And no one celebrating
There’s no more solstices
You wonder why that is
When all of us don’t like how the world turns
Plotting out our lives on detailed charts
Though some of you may want the world to burn
The rest of us wish we could see the stars
Though its hard to see through all the fake lights
But the stars are out tonight
The stars are out tonight
The stars are out tonight
Though its hard to see through all the fake lights
But the stars are out tonight