Starlight and Static

I saw you up there*
 Like a city in the footlights
 Shining in the darkness
 I couldn't see your eyes
 They all thought they knew you
 But nobody knew you
 And I wanted no one
 To know me too
 I saw you out there
 In the starlight and static
 Singing like the spark
 On a mile of coiled wire
 But you looked so lonely
 Like no one was ever lonely
 And I wanted to be
 Lonely too
 I remember once you told me
 You had a dream
 A crowded street
 You saw the ghost of James Dean
 But no one could see him
 No one could see him
 And he cried in his love
 I saw you standing
 Up against a building
 Smoking like a river
 In the dark before the dawn
 And I asked you for nothing
 And you became nothing
 You were just a ghost
 And then the ghost was gone