as small as a world and as large as alone

2:21pm May 18, 2015

Dawn comes and you’re up

You drink a fast cup

Don’t keep them waiting

All systems are go

Far down below

Morning is breaking

And you’re ready

You know the routine

You suit up and you board your machine

As all over the world eyes are glued to the video screen

There’s a hole in the cloud when you look up tonight

A window that beckons you toward the moonlight

The tower counts down and the moment is right

You take a deep breath but your chest still goes tight

Alone

At the top of the world

Day turns into night

Turns back to day

Twice on the hour

Too

Far from it now

Light years away

Thin stream of power

Rumbling under your feet

Eagle leaps from the concrete

And the lines fly away as the pad crumbles under the heat

There’s a hole in the cloud when you look up tonight

A window that beckons you toward the moonlight

The tower counts down and the moment is right

You take a deep breath but your chest still goes tight

Alone

At the top of the world

Hole in the cloud

Window that beckons you

Ahhhhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhhhh

There’s a hole in the cloud when you look up tonight

A window that beckons you toward the moonlight

The tower counts down and the moment is right

You take a deep breath but your chest still goes tight

Alone

At the top of the world

Top of the world

Top of the world

Top of the world

(Did I tell anyone, ever, that I have a serious weakness for sci-fi music?  Like music with sci-fi themes, not so much filk.  People always think I mean filk when I say science fiction music.  But no, I mean like Planet P Project.  Besides the fact that he’s an Okie, he does music I’d love even without the familiar accent – and like most California Okie accents,  you’ll notice over the course of different songs it shifts more towards California in some and more towards Okie in others, that’s just part of the accent.)

Also lyrics are from a combination of memory and listening just now.

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