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My father was a rocket man
He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars
My mother and I would watch the sky
And wonder if a falling star
Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
My father was a rocket man
He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond the sky
And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in space
I could read the silent cry
That if my father fell into a star
We must not look upon that star again
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
Tears are often jewel-like
My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels were the stars
And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find
In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star
One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him inside
My mother and I
Never went out
Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out
Or to escape the pain
We only went out when it rained
- Album:
- One Nation Underground
- Miscellaneous
- The Wizard of Is
- The Psychedelic Years Revisited
- ...Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
- City of Gold
- The Use of Ashes
- Constructive Melancholy: Thirty Years of Pearls Before Swine
- These Things Too
- A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble, Volume 2: Pagan Love...
- Balaklava
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
- Creative Outlaws - U.S. Underground 1962-1970
- Balaklava (1968)
- For the Dead In Space, Vols. II & III
- Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
- Rhino Hi-Five: Pearls Before Swine
- The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings
- A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind
- Beautiful Lies You Could Live in (US Release)