Everything Looks Prettier from Afar

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lyrics

sister dreams of paper planes
plastic boats & trinket trains
she'll board without knowing to which town she's going
whose name she won’t try to pronounce

love to watch the trees get tiny
the chimneys get few & the windows get shiny
& sigh about how everything looks prettier
from afar

sisters reflection is hollow
she gulps but her throat does not swallow
she stares down the elf she's disguised as herself
& her every gesture it follows

on a day the sky is blue
maybe may or maybe june
she'll pack away letters addressed to herself
that she’s too scared to send

on a day the sky is pink
maybe summer, maybe spring
maybe she waits on a small paper plane
as it plots its impossible landing

if distance makes poetry of stutters
& time will make canyons from gutters
i'll dream of how pretty
my worries will look where you are

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from star, star, released November 17, 2023

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