Laika

Let's all float so slow up here  
Circling the earth so near  
Together we'll ensure it's clear  
Clear to come back down again

Maybe we'll just drift some more  
Lie on our backs and watch the rain  
Of stars and comets, waiting for  
The radio static to make us sane

Biotronic, symbiotic  
Calibrated radar phonics  
Talking to us through the snow  
Of system traffic sweeping low

Everybody's here, let's start the show  
Send us back up into space  
It's quiet and we love it so  
It's where we've learned to slow the pace

It's digital and it's stereo  
Simple beats and audio  
Coming in with clarity  
Leaving the desparity  
Trapped inside the little pod  
Outside, we see it's pretty odd  
Just floating, lifeless, in the void  
Shipwrecked with the humanoids  
The sound is out and it's about  
To come back down to us again  
Come back down and bring us out  
Bring us back to what we've been

Laika won't you take us back  
Take us back to the strange fact  
Take us back to all our dreams  
In fact we like in the streams  
We float so free up in this cream  
The cosmic convalescing beam  
So fire away and send us back  
Send us straight back through the sky  
Tell us that we can't come back  
Take your aim and let us fly

We'll fly it straight and fly it true  
We'll tell you that we've made it through  
Don't you worry, we're ok  
Time is on our side today  
So just sit back and let us work  
We know what we're doing, jerk  
Sure we've slipped up here and there  
But knowing that you never cared  
We'd do it twice without regret  
Since a "good job" is all we get

So keep us tight, keep us in line  
We're looking down, give us a sign  
To let us know it's safe up here  
We're anxious and collecting fear  
Laika won't you let us know  
Give us "yes" or give us "no"  
Just the silence in itself  
Isn't really gonna help  
We're practically going insane  
Fighting sleep just to regain  
A sense of safety in our flight  
A sense that we'll all be alright

Tell my wife I love her so  
I know she may not really know  
But everything I've done up here  
I did in hopes that every tear  
Would be enough to get me here  
Up here with my musketeers  
out here on the true outside  
Where dreams and memory collide  
To form the basis of our hope  
The truth that we will never know  
What keeps the world of ours afloat  
And tells us where we're meant to go  
Who we are and what we'll be  
Why we're here and what it means

All the answers, all are here  
All so very very near  
All it takes is conquering fear  
All it takes is just to peer  
Out over that timely field  
Right past where it says to yield  
We went over and came back  
We know now what it is we lack  
The species we are going to be  
The truth of our true destiny  
Let us down and we will share  
Bring us back into the air  
We have something you'd like to see  
You'll never guess, we have the key  
Bring us home and we will tell  
The world is going straight to hell  
But we have found some hope at last  
Get us back and make it fast  
The world below has little time  
Come and get us, we're still here  
What do you mean we're not your kind?  
We might have changed, but we still fear  
All the pain you humans do  
We have emotions just like you  
We know love and we know pain  
We know this must seem quite insane  
Bring us back so you can see  
What it is you're meant to be  
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