Filed under: Cosmonaut (lyrics)
Shiny sheen helmet
From the CCCP
Shooting faster than a bullet
Preceded by a monkey
Plumbs of white smoke connect
With ease
Laying a road
To the darkened sea
Through the spit-fogged visor
That spoils the sun
Yuri’s in a hurry
To get shit done, son
To the stratosphere from here
Only afterburners in sight
He hits a speckled blue background
Looks like a white-light
He wrenches as the g-force straps him into the seat
Flips the switch and ditches
The fuel tanks at a million feet
The Cosmonaut gets whipped into the slingshot orbit
Rotating through space debris
Down below, the eleptical world
Has hula-hoop street feet
He’s got his hammer and his sickle
A few sleeves and a trick
No one knew they coulda flew
Undetected in Sputnik
A few hours later his red-star ship
Slipped back into time
Did a dance with atmosphere
And landed just fine
He didn’t know what he had missed
But already missed the stars
He knew he was ready for some Vodka
From those Siberia bars
Years later he was remembered
By those who knew best
But everyone forgot
That he died in a plane test
