[Verse 1] Boot prints fade in the rust-red dust One-man crowd in a borrowed suit Helmet glass full of distant suns My breath the only weather I can trust Purple lake flickers like a broken thought Ripples write poems that I can’t quite read Shadows stretch long on the empty shore Two moons watching like they’re judging me I ask the silence if it knows my name It answers back with a colder wind I left a planet full of beating hearts Still somehow ended up the lonely twin [Chorus] By the purple lake on Mars I’m alone with all these stars (all these stars) Every light year feels like scars That I traced from all my wars (all my wars) Offbeat heart, I sway, I sway (oh-oh) To a ghost tide in this bay If I heal, I heal in bars By the purple lake on Mars [Verse 2] Alien sky wearing bruised blue-green Clouds move slow like they’re stuck in thought I toss regrets in the low gravity They float right back, acting like they’re not Empty horizon, my favorite mirror Shows me every could-have-been face I used to fear running out of time Now it’s just time running out of place I send a message in a flare of light “Dear self, you don’t have to be this hard” If distance makes the meanings pure I’m the purest broken thing by far [Chorus] By the purple lake on Mars I’m alone with all these stars (all these stars) Every light year feels like scars That I traced from all my wars (all my wars) Offbeat heart, I sway, I sway (yeah) To a ghost tide in this bay If I heal, I heal in bars By the purple lake on Mars [Bridge] Maybe some future kid finds my notes Reads my thoughts in the cooling stone Sees the line where I finally wrote “I was never really stuck alone” ‘Cause every echoed word I cast Turned to constellations in the dark If you ever feel this far out too You can follow all my marks [Chorus] By the purple lake on Mars You’re not lost beneath these stars (beneath these stars) Every light year, every scar Is a map back to your heart (to your heart) Offbeat heart, we sway, we sway (we sway) Same ghost tide, different day If we heal, we heal in bars By the purple lake on Mars
