Postcard From Planet Earth - Skyclad

Sorry it has been so long since you received my last transmission

Meanwhile I’ve studied them, learned about their strange condition

Now I think I understand why they live in such confusion

Sadly they’ll never change, I have come to this conclusion

Planet Earth is great to visit

Great to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there

I am the mariner who navigated seas celestial

Astronaut-ambassador sent to foreign shores terrestrial

Now with hindsight I admit I don’t admire the humans' lot

Frail bodies, fragile, ill-equipped, their lives are hard but they are not

Planet Earth is great to visit

It’s great to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there

And when you know the ways of men

Then you can only pity them

Every day a raging storm

Castaway in a carbon-based life form

I’ve wandered far, I’ve wondered hard and have one source of comfort only

When I share my thoughts with you, mortality is not so lonely

Countless starts between us, myriad the things I miss

I say farewell and think of home, the static drowns my parting kiss now

Planet Earth is great to visit

It’s great to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there

And as your signal slowly wanes

The fears return my growing pains

Here it is for what it’s worth

Yet another postcard from planet Earth

Now with hindsight I admit I don’t admire the humans' lot

Frail bodies, fragile, ill-equipped, their lives are hard but they are not

Planet Earth is great to visit

It’s great to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there

And when you know the ways of men

Then you can only pity them

Every day a raging storm

Castaway in a carbon-based life form

Planet Earth is great to visit

It’s great to visit but you wouldn’t want to live there