Lyrics

[Intro][melancholy piano arpeggio, distant strings]

[Verse 1]

I dreamed of adventure
Out in the starlight
Grew up on their stories
While I waited and worried
For the daaays they’d be
hommme with me

[build-up][slowly intensifying]

And then he found you
lost out in the starlight
You didn’t have what I had
But we shared a loneliness
I thought you’d understand
I thought you’d see me as...

Well...
then you both went away

[Pre-chorus][soft, restrained]

And I stayed right where I belonged.

[Chorus][full band, aching]

I held the line, I did my time
In the end, it didn’t matter.
I made the wrong right decision
Now here I am, don’t just brush me away

[Post-chorus][Accelerating pitch riser]

Ahhh ohhhhh
Ahhh ahhh oh

[Bridge][belted, soaring]

I called you sister
And you brushed me away
He was my father
But he left anyway
Put my ambition
Into the mission
I climbed that mountain
But found only emptiness

[Breakdown][hollow, stripped back]

The right wrong decision
Was the one you both made,
without me.

[Interlude][melancholic cello ostinato]

[Verse 2]

Lord knows how I tried
To catch up, to come near
I thought you’d understand
I thought you’d see me as...

Well...
then you both ran away

[Build-up][driving, tense]

I couldn’t follow
Out in the starlight
The dutiful one
responsible one
Mother’s good soldier
Father’s perfect daughter
The legacy,
Of my family

[Pre-chorus][soft, restrained]

So I stayed right where I belonged.

[Chorus][full band, aching]

I held the line, I did my time
In the end, what did it matter?
I made the wrong right decision
Now here I am, please don’t push me away

[Post-chorus][Accelerating pitch riser]

Ahhh ohhhhh
Ahhh ahhh oh

[Outro][wistful, fading]

Lord knows how I tried
To catch up, to come near
I thought you’d understand
I thought you’d see me as...

But... I call you sister
And you brush me away

[fade-out]

Now, I’m out here in the starlight
making the right wrong decision
Please... don’t push me away.

[End]

Track: Wrong Right Decision