Apogee - Jethro Tull

Sailing round the true-blue sphere---

Is it too late to bale out of here?

Well, there has to be some better way

To turn back the night

Spin on to yesterday

The old man and his crew---

After all these years

It’s apogee

Pilot training and remorse---

Spirit friends fly too

At apogee

Apogee --- solar bright

Apogee --- through the night

Apogee --- overground

Don’t think I’ll be coming down

Screened for a stable mate

With nerves of ice we flew

At apogee

No creativity allowed

To pass through stainless veins of steel

At apogee

Apogee --- put the kettle on

Tight-lipped --- soldier on

High point --- communicate

Don’t forget to urinate

So glad they put this window in

How to explain, how to begin?

See!

Tennyson and Wordsworth there

Waiting for me in the cold, thin air

Beware a host of unearthly daffodils

Drifting golden, turned up loud

Tell the boys back home

I’m gonna get some

The Wrong Stuff’s loose in here ---

I’m climbing up the walls

At apogee

So hoist the skull and bones ---

Death and glory’s free

At apogee

A stranger wind, a solar breeze ---

I’m walking out upon the starry seas

See pyramids, see standing stones ---

Pink cotton undies and blue telephones

Goodbye, cruel world that was my home ---

There’s a cleaner space out there to roam

Put my feet up on the moons of Mars ---

Sit back, relax and count the stars