Verse 1

I place small compliments like mirrors

Tilted toward your flame

Careful angles of approval

Hoping light might turn my way

But praise is only pressure

Building slowly out of sight

And envy learns refraction

In the physics of your light

Pre-Chorus

I wear the calm of open air

Clear and generous above

But underneath the surface

Forms a star that wants too much

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Chorus

I want the light

Every warm orbit turning through me

Every gaze a compass needle

Quietly choosing me

I feed this envy brightness

Watch it separate and grow

A prism made of politeness

Breaking love I cannot hold

Do you turn toward her to spark me

Just to watch the atmosphere burn

Or am I only background radiation

A signal no one heard

My heart becomes a lens

Ground sharper every night

Obsessed with every angle

Of the path of your light

Maybe the light was never mine.

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Verse 2

Your attention moves like weather

Across the crowded room

Every glance curves space around it

Changing what I assume

I measure every distance

Like a lonely telescope

Naming distant fires

I can witness but not hold

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Chorus

I want the light

All the warmth in the room collapsing inward

Every glance a wandering planet

Slowly captured by my pull

I water envy gently

Let it root inside my tone

A quiet gravitational well

Carved inside my bones

Do you look at her to test me

Watch the atmosphere ignite

Or was I never in the system

Of the gravity you like

Maybe the light was never meant for me.

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Bridge

Maybe the sun belongs to no one

Maybe it burns where it will

But standing outside the brightness

Feels colder than standing still

So I scatter perfect kindness

Like diamonds cut from air

While underneath that symmetry

A collapsing star is there

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Outro

I wanted the light

All the warmth in the room

I fed this envy brightness

Now it bends the way I see

Maybe the light was never about me.