A Day In Space

And the world turns

And the world turns

And the world turns

And the world turns

Elvis sang that

And ever since i've been young

I've had a dream about going into space

Lying there in the darkness and staring down

Watching continents drift by and come round again

Drift by and come round again

I always want to launch myself from space and dive down

Through the atmosphere through the clouds and the air

And swoop over the heads of people walking and shopping and talking

In moscow or paris or rome

Or wherever

I'd be moving so fast i'd just have time to see their astonished faces

Before i was off again

Back off to my space base

Which could be anything really

An asteroid a moon or a spaceship

It's never been that clearly defined in my dreams

But its not important

Just to be in space would be the important thing

Just to be in space would be the important thing

And i've spoken to lots of people about my desire to go to space

And they think it's stupid

They say things like

What about the training?

I hear its very hard

I say hard? hard my arse!

A couple of assault courses and a maths test

A piece of piss

I've suffered worse than that

I've suffered much worse than that

Sometimes i wonder what's wrong with people

I think they've gone simultaneously soft or stupid

Or they're living in fear

But i dunno why

There's nothing to fear about space

Space is brilliant

Space is brilliant

And i've told people

I'd pay a million pounds to go to space

Which is true

I'd pay a million pounds or more to go for an hour

Or even half an hour

Although a day would be better

A day in space

That would be something

A day in space

That would be something

And i speak to people sometimes

And i ask them

Well what would you do if you had a million pounds?

If you wouldn't take it to space what would you do with it?

They say i dunno

Buy a house or a car

Maybe take a holiday somewhere

"a holiday where?" i ask them

Oh spain, egypt

See the pyramids maybe

See the pyramids maybe

When they say this to me i look at them

I look them straight in the eye

And i wait for just a few seconds

Just so they know what i'm going to say is going to be important

What i'm going to say is going to be important

And then i say

What better place could you go to than space?

What's a better holiday than that?

Think about lying there when your a hundered

A hundred and ten or whatever

Looking back on your life and thinking

Well what did i actually do

What did i actually achieve

"oh i saw the pyramids"

Big deal!

You can apparently see those from space anyway

You can see all the rest of the blue and green globe twisting and turning below you

You can see the sun lighting up the moon

You can feel the stars shining down upon your back

You dont get that in egypt

And you don't get that at the pyramids

And you don't get that by pissing away your million pounds on something

That everyone else can do if they save up long enough

And the world turns

And the world turns

And the world turns

And the world turns

Elvis sang that