Astronaut

Interstellar overdrive
Is playing on her phonograph
She believes he’s still alive
Out there in his hovercraft
Entering the atmosphere
It shudders and it breaks apart
Fragments falling everywhere
One hits her heart

Your lonely sister
Is praying for an astronaut
She rises from her knees
To knock his helmet off
Walking in an open field
She comes across an ankle bone
Takes it home and drills a hole
And wears it on a leather thong

Having such an awful time
Accepting that he’s really dead
Her astronaut’s alive and well
Inside her head
Your lonely sister is praying
For an astronaut
She rises from her knees
To knock his helmet off