January 11, 2016

Major Tom?

By Wyrd Smythe

Ground Control to Major Tom

Take your protein pills

and put your helmet on

Ground Control to Major Tom

(Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six)

Commencing countdown, engines on

(Five, Four, Three)

Check ignition

and may God’s love be with you…

(Two, One, Liftoff)

This is Ground Control to Major Tom

You’ve really made the grade

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

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

This is Major Tom to Ground Control

I’m stepping through the door

And I’m floating in a 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’m past 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, there’s something wrong

Can you hear me, Major Tom?

Can you hear…

RIP, David Bowie 1947–2016 A Diamond Dog and a Space Oddity!

About Wyrd Smythe

The canonical fool on the hill watching the sunset and the rotation of the planet and thinking what he imagines are large thoughts. View all posts by Wyrd Smythe

This entry was posted on Monday, January 11th, 2016 at 9:35 am and tagged with David Bowie, Diamond Dog, Space Oddity and posted in Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

7 responses to “Major Tom?”

Wyrd Smythe
January 11th, 2016 at 1:10 pm

“Tell my wife I love her very much she knows”

The whole tune sounds really appropriate under the circumstances, but that line, especially, gets to me (if you know anything about Bowie and his wife, Iman, it’s really sweet).

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Steve Morris
January 11th, 2016 at 1:18 pm

Starman is my favourite, but there are so many good ones.

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- Wyrd Smythe
  January 11th, 2016 at 1:18 pm
  
  There are, indeed. That’s why he’s a rock legend!
  
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~ Sadie ~
January 20th, 2016 at 4:50 pm

Truly a loss . . . though his legacy will live on forever ❤
One of my favs by him has always been Rebel Rebel 🙂

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- Wyrd Smythe
  January 20th, 2016 at 7:48 pm
  
  Yeah, and now we’ve lost Glen Frey, as well. (Plus Alan Rickman.)
  
  The good ones are dropping like flies! Probably because of Trump. They just couldn’t live in that world…
  
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  - ~ Sadie ~
    January 20th, 2016 at 10:27 pm
    
    I know WS – I loved them both!! Had to laugh at the Trump comment … Probably so …
    The older we get, the more greats we will lose
  - Wyrd Smythe
    January 22nd, 2016 at 12:35 pm
    
    Yeah, it’s what I once referred to as ‘the inexorable math.’ The longer you live, the more people you see die.
    
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