HW: Let's vote for the favorite HW track-listing

M Holmes fofp at TATTOO.ED.AC.UK
Wed Nov 20 07:09:44 EST 1996


Johan Edlundh writes:

> >space is deep / parasites are here on earth / secret agent / chronoglide
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> have I missed something?
> what is this?
>
>
> >Bernhard
>
> \\joe

The track "Astronauts" maybe?

Here are the lyrics:


Astronauts
==========

The Astronauts are here on Earth
Their spaceship is an armoured car
In a landscape increasingly lunar
I've seen them on the Northern Sands
With geiger counters in their hands
Their movements slowed by gravity
And bureaucratic necessity
How the minds within the helmets
Must be filled with sad regrets
For the days of weightlessness
A heady time before ballistics
And falsification of field statistics
Imagination leads us on
It's one small step for the likes of me
And yet in fickle reality
The first space age has come and gone
We reached a psychic barrier
A hand
Maybe a mirror
Which told us "go no further"
Besides, considerations fiscal
So swiftly severed our umbilical
We turned our backs on galaxies
We changed NASA priorities
To fit in with the military's
Launching Star Wars technology
Co-existent with satellite TV
We follow the lead of Hollywood
Tail firmly wagging the dog

You and I are parasites
We have the anti-Midas touch
Turning everything to dust
We are the poisons and disease
There is no magic cure for these
Boxed deposits in sea and soil
Outlast Humankind itself
Like cats we bury our detritus
We've brought the craters back home with us
And the astronauts are here on Earth



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