This song is one of the ones actually inspired specifically by the original story of the Little Match Girl. In the story, she looks up to the sky and sees a shooting star and remembers that her grandmother once told her that a shooting star is a soul ascending to heaven. This song is based on the idea that if you wish upon a shooting soul, your wish goes straight to heaven, and that's why you make wishes on shooting stars. The tails on the shooting stars are the tears of those they've left behind.
Character: Grandmother
Favorite Line: "Catching wishes in their tails/ and slipping out of sight..."
Hardest line to write: "drops from eyes that miss the one/ who gave their spirit light"
Why: I knew what I wanted to say, but it was way too many syllables for the line that I needed. I finally managed to cut it down to this line, which sums up what I wanted to say pretty well, actually, but it took forever to get it to sound right...
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