Rocket`s Tail Lyrics

Rocket`s Tail lyrics

That November night, looking up into the sky,

 You said,

 

 "Hey, wish that was me up there--

 It's the biggest rocket I could find,

 And it's holding the night in its arms

 If only for a moment.

 I can't see the look in its eyes,

 But I'm sure it must be laughing."

 

 But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen,

 And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing.

 

 I saw only a stick on fire,

 Alone on its journey

 Home to the quickening ground,

 With no one there to catch it.

 

 I put on my pointed hat

 And my black and silver suit,

 And I check my gunpowder pack

 And I strap the stick on my back.

 And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge--

 Nobody seems to see me.

 Then, with the fuse in my hand,

 And now shooting into the night

 And still as a rocket,

 I land in the river.

 

 Was it me said you were crazy?

 I put on my cloudiest suit,

 Size 5 lightning boots, too.

 'Cause I am a rocket

 On fire.

 Look at me go, with my tail on fire,

 With my tail on fire,

 On fire.

 Hey, look at me go, look at me...