Moon Dust and Solitude

On with the suite that I’ve lived in
Through all of the training
We’re bound for the heavens today
That impossible ride
Saying goodbye to the kids
Early on and explaining
Look out on the news for the views
While I’m up in the sky
In my mind
Here confined
Ever primed
In solitude
They’re falling away and descending below
To the moon dust
Leaving me here as I circle above
Sixty miles
Left with my thoughts in this universe
Coloured lights flashing
Earth through the window
So beautiful, waits for the news
In my mind
Here confined
Ever primed
In solitude
Crater to crater, light into dark
I am floating
Radio contact my life line
To all that I know
Prayers that I keep, dreams in my sleep
My companions
Log sheets and space they’re my ghosts
How I’m here heaven knows
Fear and hope so far away
The earth so blue
Come what may
Fear and hope so far away
The earth so blue
I picture my wife, friends in my life
I am missing
I hear in my head what I could have said
Yesterday
Then mission control breaks the deadlock
Here inside me
They’re down on the surface
Stars and stripes upon the moon
Fear and hope so far away
The earth so blue
Come what may
Fear and hope so far away
The earth so blue