This song is about being blinded by love at first sight. To see no light beyond the light of one's beloved.
"A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes
I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind
The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out
You left me in the dark
No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight
In the shadow of your heart"
Here we have another metaphor. She is listening for the sound of his heart. She doesn't say she doesn't hear the sound, she says she hears the sound and it stops. This indicates that he appeared to share the same feelings, but pulled away unsure of himself. It could have been too sudden for him.
"And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat
I tried to find the sound
But then it stopped,"
Even so she is still blinded by her love for him and can see only him.
"and I was in the darkness,"
So she becomes depressed.
"So darkness I became"
Here we see a more literal metaphor. "Starry-eyed" means "given to naive wishes, judgments, etc.; full of unsophisticated optimism" and so she is saying that she has given up and is taking those starry-eyes away and trying to pull herself back together finding her way back to some semblance of normality.
"I took the stars from our eyes, and then I made a map
And knew that somehow I could find my way back"
Just as she is ready to move on he realizes his own feelings and she again hears his heart, his emotions. She realizes that he was similarly blinded by his love for her so she chooses to remain blinded to her love for him.
"Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too"
So I stayed in the darkness with you"
She continues the verses as before that she is left in the dark. This is nothing depressing since the darkness here is blindness to love. It's why she sings it in such an uplifting way, IMHO.
I'm surprised at all the other interpretations that didn't come close to this. I don't think it's as simple as unrequited love, nor do I think it is at all religious. It's cosmic in it's depth alone.
This song is about being blinded by love at first sight. To see no light beyond the light of one's beloved.
Here we have another metaphor. She is listening for the sound of his heart. She doesn't say she doesn't hear the sound, she says she hears the sound and it stops. This indicates that he appeared to share the same feelings, but pulled away unsure of himself. It could have been too sudden for him.
Even so she is still blinded by her love for him and can see only him.
So she becomes depressed.
Here we see a more literal metaphor. "Starry-eyed" means "given to naive wishes, judgments, etc.; full of unsophisticated optimism" and so she is saying that she has given up and is taking those starry-eyes away and trying to pull herself back together finding her way back to some semblance of normality.
Just as she is ready to move on he realizes his own feelings and she again hears his heart, his emotions. She realizes that he was similarly blinded by his love for her so she chooses to remain blinded to her love for him.
She continues the verses as before that she is left in the dark. This is nothing depressing since the darkness here is blindness to love. It's why she sings it in such an uplifting way, IMHO.
I'm surprised at all the other interpretations that didn't come close to this. I don't think it's as simple as unrequited love, nor do I think it is at all religious. It's cosmic in it's depth alone.