[time: 5:10]
[Lyrics: Martin Walkyier]
[Music: Steve Ramsey]
[for absent friends]
Sorry it has been so long since
you received my last transmission,
meanwhile I've studied them - learned about their strange condition.
Now I think I understand why
they live in such confusion,
sadly they'll never change - I have come to this conclusion....
Planet Earth is great to visit -
It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)
I am the mariner who navigates seas celestial,
astronaut
ambassador sent to foreign shores terrestrial.
Now with hindsight I admit I don't admire the humans' lot,
frail bodies - fragile,
ill equipped, their lives are hard (but they are not).
Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't
want to live there.)
And when you know the ways of men
then you can only pity them,
every day a raging storm -
castaway in
a carbon based life form.
I've wandered far (I've wondered hard) and have one source of comfort only -
when I share my thoughts
with you mortality is not so lonely.
Countless starts between us - myriad the things I miss,
I say farewell and think of home, the
static drowns my parting kiss.
Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live
there.)
And as your signal slowly wanes -
the fears return (my growing pains),
here it is for what it's worth -
yet
another postcard from planet Earth.
Now with hindsight I admit I don't admire the humans' lot,
frial bodies - ill equipped,
their lives are hard (but they are not).
Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live
there.)
And when you know the ways of men
then you can only pity them,
every day a raging storm -
castaway in a carbon
based life form.
Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)
