Starlight And Static - Jeffrey Foucault

I saw you up there*

Like a city in the footlights

Shining in the darkness

I couldn’t see your eyes

They all thought they knew you

But nobody knew you

And I wanted no one

To know me too

I saw you out there

In the starlight and static

Singing like the spark

On a mile of coiled wire

But you looked so lonely

Like no one was ever lonely

And I wanted to be

Lonely too

I remember once you told me

You had a dream

A crowded street

You saw the ghost of James Dean

But no one could see him

No one could see him

And he cried in his love

I saw you standing

Up against a building

Smoking like a river

In the dark before the dawn

And I asked you for nothing

And you became nothing

You were just a ghost

And then the ghost was gone