We're satellites in borrowed skies, Trading constellations through the night, For a moment I'm in your orbit, Like I finally found the light. Then another star begins to shine, You leave my atmosphere behind, I'm just another piece of dust, Floating where you used to find me. Every signal that I send Gets quieter with the distance, I keep calling through the silence, You keep chasing brighter systems. Gravity always wins. You drift where the light burns brightest, While I'm left spinning in the dark again. I was a planet for a minute, Now I'm debris upon the wind. You say the universe is endless, But somehow I never fit in. Gravity... always wins. I know the names of every moon That circles people more than me. I trace your path across the black, But you're already galaxies away. I keep building little rockets Out of words you never hear, Launching hope into the vacuum, Watching every one disappear. Maybe I was never meant To orbit borrowed suns. Maybe there's another sky Where I don't have to outrun The pull of every brighter body Passing through your view— Maybe somewhere in the cosmos, Someone's gravity is true. But gravity always wins. You drift where the light burns brightest, While I'm left spinning in the dark again. I was a planet for a minute, Now I'm debris upon the wind. You say the universe is endless, But somehow I never fit in. Gravity... always wins.
