Love-Hounds Digest #7.396

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Rocket Man 
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
(reprinted without permission)

She packed my bags last night 
pre-flight.
zero hour, 9AM.
and I'm gonna be high as a kite by then.

I miss the Earth so much,
I miss my wife.
It's lonely out in space
on such a timeless flight

Chorus:
    And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
    till touch down brings me round again to find
    I'm not the man they think I am at home.
    Oh, no, no, no.
    I'm a rocket man,
    Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids,
in fact it's cold as hell.
And there's no one there to raise them if you did.

And all this science, 
I don't understand.
It's just my job, five days a week,
A rocket man.

Copyright 1972 Dick James Music, Ltd.