Hum- You'd Prefer an Astronaut lyrics
The Infamous Mr Blue
You'd Prefer An Astronaut
by Hum
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Little Dipper
if we both stand with absent eyes
and think about the oceans, watch 'em dry
we can see far to the other side
it's you and i forever, we don't have to hide
if we ignore the signals that mission control will send
it's one big ship ride anyway, this hell will never end
we gaze out on what they left of the stars
all we see now we can take as ours
you two've got just moments left to give
come back now and we will let you live
stay inside our blue protective eye
we won't let them take you, we won't let you die
my baby spins propellants, my systems set to blow
she's at the milky way now, spelling into snow
and she's constructed flashpoints to cover up the sun
i sleep under glass, i know that she will wake me when she's done
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The Pod
morning scatters in and i am steady like a drug feeling out this one
she wakes up smashed as hell and steadies her ass against the rail
and bends before the pounding rain
she had the widest bright ideas all along about my love
and i need this fucking fix and i beg her
to pick from one of the billion ways to feel no pain
the morning after bends reflected and i can hardly stand the way this
whole thing makes me seem
she climbs out from a dream with lungs hardly as she screams a stereo
scream
and bends before astounding rain
she's got a system made of metal and magnet bits inside a brain
she opens her box of tricks and begs me
to pick from one of the billion ways to feel no pain
she had the widest bright ideas
that all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends
everyone is on wait, wait on the end, only uptight, love me good now?
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Stars
she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
she's not at work, she's not at school
she's not in bed, i think i finally broke her
i bring her home everything i want, nothing that she needs
i thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me
she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
i found her out back sitting naked looking up and looking dead
a crumpled yellow piece of paper, seven nines and tens
i thought she'd be there holding daisies, she always waits for me
she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
i thought you'd be there holding daisies, you always wait for me
she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars
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Suicide Machine
sleep comes to everyone while we wait for the sunday afternoons
sleep comes to everyone, everyone baby, yeah, but you
sleep comes to everyone while we wait, wide awake and blue
sleep comes to everyone, everyone baby, yeah, but me and you
and so i give myself away to everybody everyday
and so i give myself to you and you need it more than i do
sleep comes to everyone while we wait for the sunday afternoons
sleep comes to everyone, everyone baby, yeah, but you
and i have this one figured out,
that's why the suicide machine is built for two
a simple sick device devised to overload on love
to bring us colored dreams and soundtracked waves of fun
and so i give myself away to everybody everyday
and so i give myself to you and you need it more than i do
sleep comes to no one else like we have falling through the ground
fulfilling promises of endless summer nights
i'm losing ground, you're losing sound
somewhere through a thousand blues a dragonfly descends with just a
whisper
i'm lonelier than god, and all my wishes spin the fishes in the air
and everyone a different shade of you
and to the left where up is down
now stand a zebra made of shapes of me and silver and the sun
so bring no guilt with you up above the flatline
let's just hit the sky exploding into one
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The Very Old Man
it's eerie and it's awesome how all connected
two pods scattered on the surface can become lazy in to one
he knows lightning kills the other,
she can't stand to watch his petals fall
it's better when cascades become like us all
after their golden disengagement leaves a woman with a household left to
fill
sit and be still
i send the voltage 'cross his ticker
watch the stars they start to flicker
and one by one levels fall
another drink, my love, and make it tall enough so i can stand on it and
see
all you've done for me
a world of curves and lines electric
remember how you strung the colored lights from christmas tree to me
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Why I Like The Robins
the distance outside of you comes into focus, collapses away loving me
and hands to the glass and eyes to sky and glued to the south she waits
to see
she's looking for birds she met last fall,
who said they would come back different than all
she's waiting for six who know about sound,
who'd promised to come back upside down
and i like your raindrop collector,
splash in my eyes and makes everything else look like you
so hand me the glasses and teach me to use them,
show me the window, i want to look too
i'll take the glasses and cover for you,
you get some sleep and i'll stay 'till two.
i'm looking for six who know about sound,
who promised to come back upside down
she's got colors to spare and i don't care what they choose
and i've got nothing to do and nothing like you left to lose
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I'd Like Your Hair Long
i'd like your hair long and ladeled (?) to the ground
you'd prefer an astronaut
someone to relate to and someone to command
and i would be a simple man
i could hardly wait for my stars to fall in line
and synchronize and shine
a wasted string of years, and a wasted string of lies
it's still the same to me
it's a waste of a song
you're a waste of my lungs
it's a waste of a song
i'd like your face gone and in its place the sun
and i would be an astronaut
for i have come to surface to catch some light and feed
and i have everything i need
and i could hardly wait for my stars to fall in line
and synchronize and shine
a wasted string of years, and a wasted string of lies
you're still the same to me
you're a waste of a song
you're a waste of my lungs
it's a waste of a song
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I Hate it Too
morning gray ignites a twisted mess of foreign shapes and sounds
i wish the ceiling was the ground
i'll send you flowers made of silent tiny pieces of the sun
to help me make up for this one
while you send me tidal waves of love when you're alone
and i can't remember what you do
to find a way to turn the signal back to heaven sounding blue
and bring me faithful back to you
and she don't hold me right, she's never going to get me there
not tonight
if we break off gently in slow motion, spinning outward into space
my hand always floating gently at the wheel while you sweetly hold my
face
and i need you to give it meaning, i need you to share the view
or it becomes a time for me to love myself like every other thing i do
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Songs of Farewell and Departure
before we (? and send) steady to the sun
a simple tale of woe, your hearts won't be undone
a love song to everyone i know
arms wide open, here we go
she weaves a trail of petals through the embryonic hives
her hair was warm to the touch and flowers twice as nice
and if he stands on the moon he can barely catch her eyes
always open to the sky
and so we land only to find we never left the ground
please leave the walls and the floors exactly as you found
a love song to everyone i know
arms wide open, here we go
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