Sky Blues

 

Well I'm on a trip from the world and its ills
But I can get high without your needles and pills
'Cause I'm a freefall-fixer
In a state of grace
And I don't need no hypodermic
- I've got me hyperspace!

Some people say life is no fun at all
But you have to agree that the world is a ball
When you're a satellite-swinger
Way out in space
Where the crescent luminescent moon's
A pleasant smile on heaven's face.

Yeah you can play at living like the poor of the Earth
You can pray forever for a miracle birth
But there's a real solution if we try,
'Cause for not much more than the price of a war
You could take god's children to heaven's door
And if the future doesn't suit ya make a new world in the sky!

Now the planet is turning as it circles the sun
The galaxy's whirling and it's turning me on!
You got your feet on the ground
And it makes me smile,
Because you're travellin' like a javelin,
Every day you fly a billion miles!

Oh, some say there's two wise opinions to hold -
The kind you can jingle and the kind you can fold -
But that's a cynical opinion
I want you to know.
'Cause when you're flyin' to Orion
You wanna be loaded . . . with D₂0!

(that's deuterium oxide, baby)

Yeah you can play at living like the poor of the Earth
You can pray forever for a miracle birth
But there's a real solution if we try,
'Cause for not much more than the price of a war
You could take god's children to heaven's door
And if the future doesn't suit ya make a new world in the sky!