Shooting Star

Every star falls one day
No matter how brightly it shone
The audience cheers its fall
Just as they cheered when it burst onto the scene

I wasn't made to last
I was made to be consumed

I'm a shooting star
My brilliance is my sentence
I burned so they could see me
And no one saw my essence

They told my story in headlines
They summed up my fire in a caption
No one asked the price
Of keeping that flame alive

I wasn't made to last
I was made to be consumed

I'm a shooting star
My brilliance is my sentence
I burned so they could see me
And no one saw my essence

When I fade away for good
Remember that I chose to burn
And not just to be seen
I wanted, for a moment, to exist

I am a shooting star
My brilliance is my sentence
I burned so they could see me
And no one saw my essence