Wish on a Star

They didn't say your name at graduation,

there was silence when there should've been you

when we should've been screaming for you

as you walked across the football field because your class isn't small enough to fit inside there was silence

(maybe the others might've been screaming, maybe I wasn't

I wished for a star to scream for you though)

They didn't say your name at prom, you got no grand proposal

there was no standing ovation for your final senior solo

that I wished so hard for, because you deserved it.

Not cause you're dead, not cause you're gone

you've just left me behind.

And it's selfish to want you back when you were never mine

mine like my neighborhood, mine like my town, 

mine like you belong to everyone and yourself but you're still a part of me

but I was never a part of you

I wished on a star I would be

You'll forget me after graduation, after you walked across without me watching, with the puff and blow of scented nicotine

And I'll cough when you come home and avoid you all the same

because I thought you were mine once and I was never yours

and I wished on a star you'd come back again but

I think that star was dead.