Bob Geldof Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things Lyrics

Thinking Voyager 2 Type Things Lyrics

This is the moment that we come alive



I'm handing out the breath and the kiss



I'm electric with the snap and the crackle of creation



I'm mixing up the mud with the spit



So rise up Brendan Behan and like a drunken Lazarus



Let's traipse the high bronze of the evening sky



Like crack crazed kings.







Voyager 2 where are you now



Looking back at home and weeping



Cold and alone in the dark void



Winding down and bleeping



Ever dimmer ever thinner



Feebly cheeping in the solar winds



I'll turn you up



Sail on sail on sail on



On past the howling storms



Through electric orange skies



And blinding methane rain



Sail on



I'll turn you up







Never bring me down to earth again



Let me blaze a trail of glory across the sky



Let me traipse across it's golden high



Let me marvel in wonder and unfettered gaze



At the bigness and implausibility of being







Yes stretch out your hands into infinity you human things



Past blind moons and ice cream worlds



You hurl your metal ball of dull intelligence



And show us all our fragile grip



As we too track with you



Slower but no less insistent



Like the only fertile seed



In the barren vault of being



Sail on



Hurtling towards the waiting tomb of empty worlds



Waiting for the final primary come of life



I'll turn you up







And I'm thinking big things



I'm thinking about mortality



I'm thinking it's a cheap price that we pay for existance



This is the moment that we come alive



This is the breath and this is the kiss







No we're in Paris



In the ball gowns



In the high heels



In the snow



And we're spinning round Versailles in a Volkswagen Beetle



That we'd hired for the day



(At the cheap rate)



The room without the shower was cold again



"Are we already middle-aged", she said



And I said "I feel nothing



I feel like a jelly-fish",



"Mabey it's the Portuguese Men-O-Pause", she joked



And she laughed her brittle head



And we went back to bed



And I've been thinking about these things



I've been thinking about Voyager 2



And this is the moment that we come alive.











*Taken from the album "Vegetarians of Love"



*Written by Bob Geldof/Pete Briquette