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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