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Stay out super late tonight
Picking apples, making pies
Put a little something in our lemonade
And take it with us
we're half awake in a fake empire
We're half awake in a fake empire
Tiptoe through our shiny city
With our diamond slippers on
Do our gay ballet on ice
Bluebirds on our shoulders
we're half awake in a fake empire
We're half awake in a fake empire
Turn the light out, say goodnight
No thinking for a little while
Let's not try to figure out everything at once
It?s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky
we're half awake in a fake empire
We're half awake in a fake empire
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"We're half awake" could be interpreted as trying to find meaning in life but knowing that you are just like everyone else, hypnotized by the media in our "fake empire".
As far as love, you're going out and doing things like "stay[ing] out super late" but for some reason you only feel half awake, like it's just a dream, and you long for the moment once it's gone, just like a dream.
Tiptoe through our shiny city
with our diamond slippers on
do our gay ballet on ice
bluebirds on our shoulders
we�re half-awake in a fake empire
we�re half-awake in a fake empire
It's like their world is so perfect, like they're dreaming or in some simulation. But they're "half awake" or aware of this and even in this "fake empire" they don't care its fake because they're together.
In the early phases the relationship seems like it will last forever(it wont) and feels almost like a dream, ergo half awake in a semi-dream state, in a fake empire - it is not real and lasting as an empire would be.
The last stanza is when it all comes crashing back to Earth. He sees his lover/love affair falling through the sky, a meteor crashing back to Earth (hard to keep track of you falling through the sky).
He doesn't want to contemplate it - turn the light out say goodnight -no thinking for a little while.
But obviously it's not an actual Empire, it's just a nickname, hence "Fake Empire". Running through the center of the world, having fun, and enjoying all the wonders of a city bustling with activity. The city that never sleeps. I think this song is a song about that.