again, you packed up slammed the door, i fell out in peacenan hour later i wake up to the jangle of your keysnit seems you can’t do nothin’ right, all your papers in a heapnthe night before your big exam and you drink your self to sleepnnif you’re gonna leave me go ahead, but i don’t believe your threatsni’ll surely miss your body but it’s your mind i won’t forgetnnmy brilliant star, you flicker off and onnmy brilliant star, your self-defeating whims pull you closer to the sunnnyou used to write me poetry when you were so inspirednyou rivaled yeats but lately all you do is sit around and crynso you got yourself a new job that’s sucking out your lifensixty grand in student loans and now you don’t want to writennyou want to get yourself a brush and eisel, paint up on the bridgenbut i know you all too well girl and i’m afraid that you can’t swimnnmy brilliant star, you flicker off and onnmy brilliant star…nnyou’re headed for a crashnninety million miles, give or take-nyou’re still far away as the sun’s going downnnmy brilliant star, you flicker off and onnmy brilliant star, you’re self-defeating…