Virginia singer-songwriter Tobi LaCroix transforms adolescent uncertainty into celestial poetry with Orion, a piano-driven pop ballad that maps heartache across constellations.
The track opens with raw honesty about aging (“I pull my hair out/And the new ones grow in gray”) before floating into a chorus that makes the Greek hunter’s belt feel like an old friend.
LaCroix’s vocals dance between vulnerability and defiance, especially when he flips childhood wonder on its head:
“I miss my daisies/And my seven-year-old zeal.”
The production starts intimate – just piano and voice – before expanding into an atmospheric dreamscape that mirrors that space between childhood stargazing and teenage reality checks.
What makes “Orion” stick is how it captures that specific moment when you realize growing up isn’t what astronomy books promised.
Stream it on your favourite platform, preferably during a late-night crisis about getting older or while googling constellations you used to know by heart.
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Tobi LaCroix “Orion” Lyrics
I pull my hair out
And the new ones grow in gray
I’m almost 16
But you’d swear
I was born yesterday
‘Cause to you I’m still the kid who liked the stars
I’ll buy you flowers
And then watch as they all wilt
I’m overcome
With all this awful, senseless guilt
My two feet
On this world that we call “ours”
Orion
Watch over my foolish head
I was a kid who didn’t know
That I would end up dead
Orion
I knew you had a tale to tell
You should have said
These kinds of stories
Never end up well
I miss my daisies
And my seven-year-old zeal
For years
I was convinced
That I just couldn’t feel
If my heart were a cliff
My mind would fall
Orion
Watch over my foolish head
I was a kid who didn’t know
That I would end up dead
Orion
I knew you had a tale to tell
You should have said
These kinds of stories
Never end up well
Orion
Watch over my foolish head
I was a kid who didn’t know
That I would end up dead
Orion
I knew you had a tale to tell
You should have said
These kinds of stories
Never end up well
I’ve always known
That life is better said than done
We think of innocence
As brighter than the sun
And to you
I’m still the kid who liked the stars