Shooting Star

The words

Watching a falling star, he thinks of a lover he may have failed and of the last chances slipping away.

The singer sees a star fall across the night sky and thinks of a woman he once loved, wondering whether he ever became the man she hoped for or simply let her down. From there the song widens into a sense of last things: chances closing, an ending drawing near, one final call to change. Its tone is gentle and regretful rather than bitter, and as the closing track of Oh Mercy it leaves the album on a quiet, reflective note.