Christmas on Earth - Momus

Well I know that on Earth it is Christmas now

And I hope there’ll be days in the snow

When I return many light years on

Though my friends will have died long ago

And the rain makes a sound like the asteroids

There are worlds made of ice in the clouds

I’m receiving transmissions they broadcast long ago

They remind me of things I have seen

All the people and cities and crowds

Ring the bells, ring the bells, ring them

Ring the bells, ring the bells, I can still hear them

Here on the way to the stars

About now back on earth it is Christmas time

There’ll be logs in the grate, they will burn

I’m alone tape recording memories

For it all will have changed when I return

And the rain is so strange in the Milky Whey

I see cloudscapes of purple and green

Candleabras are shooting off firework displays

And I’m writing the things I have seen

People shopping and sparks from a train

Well I know that on Earth it is Christmas now

But in space time goes by so slow

At the speed of light one single night

Is a year to the people back home