11) Astrolabe

Almost left, but you set me right.
The day went down, and then came night.
I turned up and got turned down,
and another moon and sun swung 'round.
Neither hearing what they're told,
one burns hot and one grows cold.
Certainty see-saws with doubt,
hoping gravity will sort it out.

(chorus)
Two universes, held within
this interlocking wheel of days.
Circles within circles spin
round and round like an astrolabe.

On the outside, orbiting,
I can only think of all those things
I wish I could go back and say,
but time only turns 'round one way.

And even times when things are great
I still fear the counterweight
when we both pass the same road signs
but your horizon is not mine.

(chorus)

(bridge)
So many stars,
it's hard to pick one and decide
but we could figure out where we are
if we could only see them
side by side by side by side by side.

Sometimes I wish the dawn would bring
less complicated schemes of things,
instead of weaving 'round this stone,
but in that way, we're not alone.

Moon circles Earth.
Earth circles Sun,
a burning sphere of hydrogen.
Electron turns a lonely ring,
and by that light, this song I sing.

(chorus)

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