I don’t want to leave home But Mars is calling I pack my bags And count the stars In my mind I’m all alone I kiss my wife And leave my home Flight’s out in a couple of hours Say goodbye to all the flowers That I will never see again The sun looks dimmer everyday I’m brave I swear I’m not scared of nothing Except maybe all the nothing In between my new and former home They said I’d see space My wife said good That’s what I need I think you should Well, wedding rings Aren’t allowed When you’re taking off So she took hers off When she waved goodbye Flight’s out in a couple of hours Say goodbye to all the flowers That I will never see again The sun looks dimmer everyday I’m brave I swear I’m not scared of nothing Except maybe all the nothing In between my new and former home Stars are the only thing spinning around my head

Liftoff We Have Liftoff I feel my head is pressing back against me seat and I’m ready to blow I feel my ears are popping, chattering my teeth, and I’m not sure if I’m ready to go And I am wondering if the life I leave behind really matters My blood is feeling like I mixed it with cement and I’m turning to stone My lovely wife is nothing more than memories But I’m less to her My eyes are blooming as I burst towards the light And I’m still not scared

I can see the earth It’s small from a distance I can see the earth That lonesome sphere I can touch the stars Put their light in my pocket I can touch the stars But not my fears Sure I feel regret But that’s only normal There’s no one here to judge me But myself I can count the people Here who hate me But I can never get Inside their heads Don’t want to be another lonely astronaut Don’t want to be alone Don’t want to float around the solar system I’m homesick but without a home Yeah, I had a wife But she never smiled But I swear I saw her grin When I took off The atmosphere’s as thick as the feelings I stomach A hero’s gotta look like he is strong My head is like a planet Lonely and barren Floating through the sky A ball of rock My body is a comet I’m on fire Wishing on my trail Like a shooting star Don’t want to be another lonely astronaut Don’t want to be alone Don’t want to float around the solar system I’m homesick but without a home And I am hoping that there’s someone out there Who’s floating with me in this silent hell I killed my radio I don’t guidance I’m just an alien inside a shell I am not worried ‘bout the airless vacuum My lungs sustain themselves on cigarettes And maybe life out here is worth the struggle Or else I guess I’ll have to wait for death My thoughts are strung up in a planetarium Got model rockets in my brain I eat my dinner off of flying saucers I drink to take away the pain Don’t want to be another lonely astronaut Don’t want to be alone Don’t want to float around the solar system I’m homesick but without a home

The stars look brighter past the ozone But I’m still alone so I’m feeling darker than before And if you’re looking for me somewhere I’m shutting out the sun where There’s really nothing left for me on earth And I am trying hard to focus on the radar But nothing seems to want me around And I am wishing that this ship would find some quiet land For me to put my bones into the ground It seems I’ve lost all forms of consciousness Suffocated in this cockpit My confidence is slipping and my autopilot’s on Well how could someone with a life like me Lose his house and wife maybe I’ve got more company here in space Well sometimes darkness is a better friend I know someday the sun will end So I’d rather be acquainted with the black And I am trying hard to focus on the radar But nothing seems to want me around And I am wishing that this ship would find some quiet land For me to put my bones into the ground

Well, Maybe I’m a waste of space My ship takes off my heart deflates And I just keep my head facing the stars And maybe what I’m looking for Is something that cannot be found on earth Not just an astronaut, I’m a discrace Well at least it pays I’m floating through past the planets But my spirit’s sinking into static Signals don’t mean anything to me Like wedding vows or vengeful mouths My problems just get swallowed up out here It’s easy I cried a bit, we left the ground I caught my tears floating around The gravity was slowly grip And so was I Well earth is such a hostile place, not looking for another race Just trying not to feel so alone My phaser’s set to liquefy The stony heart I put inside My chest to make me feel like I was strong I’ve been talking to myself like how’ve you been is something wrong I know you like to be alone but I don’t think this is what you had in mind And maybe if you love your wife it’s better that you spend your life Just living as a twinkle in the sky It’s clear she doesn’t want you back your bags were packed before you took this job So use your head and shut your mouth, your only friend’s a floating house That you will never get to call a home So I say fuck my stellar life maybe I would like a place I could be loved. Yeah, just for once So get out of my head, I’m seeing stars I’m being fed with freeze-dried truth. I’m used To rockets taking me away from everything I ever loved. But it doesn’t matter. They never loved me back. So I’m willing to die if it’ll take me somewhere I can be at peace But astronaut you’re nothing now Your honor’s up and left you like your wife Well maybe I’m too tired now to even try to put up a fight You’re useless and your life’s a wreck Just floating in this metal coffin now I know I’ve got a choice to make. Like should I crash and burn or stick around Well maybe it’s a better thing to grab control and flip and spin and sing your way to a cosmic afterlife (I’m so tired of this coffin) And maybe if you turned around, she’d take you back you’re lost you can be found. Maybe it’s worth it after all (I’m so ready just to end things) Well hopefulness is something that no solace found in space could ever bring. That must mean something. (I need solace I need something) And wallowing in emptiness won’t get your wife to take you back. Man, you’d better quit your crying (I found peace in being lonely) So my mind’s made up, I’m going home. And nothing’s going to get in my way