"i can still hope" Song Lyric Dissection

This song was basically written on the premise of Romeo and Juliet with a twist. Same star-crossed lovers deal, except this time, the love is unrequited on the part of who is representing Romeo’s character. The narrator, who represents Juliet, laments and self-deprecates and wishes that her Romeo would love her back.  

The way you laugh is music to my ears
Like angels singing in the distance
The way you smile is a masterpiece
You’re gonna put the sun out of business

The deification of a love interest.
Here I have already established a motif of heavenly objects. Their smile is so bright that the sun is no longer needed to warm the earth.

But I’m the moon, and the angels weep 
Cause you’re not mine to keep
Cause I’m the moon, and the angels cry
Cause I’m the dullest damn thing in the sky

A callback to the angels that were singing in the distance. 
The sun and the moon are perhaps the most star-crossed of lovers. I wanted to do something astronomical because of that phrase! 
This song takes a very self-deprecating tone. The moon may be considered dull by some because all of its light comes from the sun; in reality the moon is my favorite thing in the sky after a select few stars.

But I can still hope for a day
Where the sun meets the moon
And I can still wish upon a star
For that day to come soon

Wishing on shooting stars is very easy when you are in outer space.

I stick out like a sore thumb
A rock among a bunch of shining lights
And you burn brightest of them all
No one can see, but you light up my nights

Further reinforcing statements made; this character feels that everything good about her is courtesy of the love interest (the sun is the reason the moon lights up the night sky).

But they can see my inconsistency
I’m a plain girl who lets everyone walk over me

Some top notch moon humor if I’m being honest. The first line— the moon’s phases. Every night you look up at the sky you see a different moon. The second line— it speaks to the characters lack of self-esteem but also people have walked on the moon!!! Everyone laugh.

But I can still hope for a day
Where the sun meets the moon
And I can still wish upon a star
For that day to come soon

A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet
But me by any other name is still a goddamn weed
And if every rose has a thorn of its own
Me, I’d be a thorn in your side as you grow and grow and grow

I love taking popular phrases and changing them a little bit; since the entire song is a twist on Romeo and Juliet, I only found it right to invoke Shakespeare directly as well.
Here, it becomes clear that the narrator will never see herself worthy of her love interest; they are a rose, they are the sun, while she is a weed, a thorn, the moon.

But I can still hope for a day
Where the sun meets the moon
And I can still wish upon a star
For you to want that too

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