Space Oddity

Ground control to major Tom

Ground control to major Tom

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on (ten, nine)

Ground control to major Tom (eight, seven)

Commencing countdown (five) engines on (four, three, two)

Check ignition (one) and may god's love be with you (liftoff)

This is ground control to major Tom

You've really made the grade

And the papers want to know who shot you where

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is major Tom to ground control

I'm steppin' through the door

And I'm floating in the most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today

For here, am I sitting in a tin can

Far above the world

Planet earth is blue

And there's nothing I can do

Though I've posted one-hundred thousand miles

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

Tell my wife I love her very much

She knows

Ground control to major Tom

Your circuit's dead

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