A Day In Space-Ballboy

[ti:A Day In Space] [ar:Ballboy] [al:Club Anthems] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Day In Space - Ballboy [00:00.55]And the world turns [00:02.53] [00:05.81]And the world turns [00:09.19] [00:10.72]And the world turns [00:15.46]And the world turns [00:18.73] [00:40.58]Elvis sang that [00:41.09] [00:42.40]And ever since i've been young [00:44.00]I've had a dream about going into space [00:45.56] [00:46.44]Lying there in the darkness and staring down [00:48.41] [00:49.00]Watching continents drift by and come round again [00:51.37] [00:53.11]Drift by and come round again [00:54.92] [00:58.50]I always want to launch myself from space and dive down [01:00.71] [01:01.65]Through the atmosphere through the clouds and the air [01:03.95] [01:04.62]And swoop over the heads of people walking [01:06.64]And shopping and talking [01:07.43] [01:08.15]In moscow or paris or rome [01:09.41] [01:10.15]Or wherever [01:10.85] [01:12.08]I'd be moving so fast I'd just have time to see [01:14.59]Their astonished faces [01:15.60] [01:16.54]Before i was off again [01:17.59] [01:18.23]Back off to my space base [01:19.79] [01:21.60]Which could be anything really [01:22.83] [01:23.35]An asteroid a moon or a spaceship [01:24.98] [01:25.74]It's never been that clearly defined in my dreams [01:28.56] [01:30.55]But its not important [01:31.76] [01:33.02]Just to be in space would be the important thing [01:34.51] [01:35.41]Just to be in space would be the important thing [01:37.86] [01:55.06]And I've spoken to lots of people about [01:56.77]My desire to go to space [01:58.03] [01:59.73]And they think it's stupid [02:00.97]They say things like [02:02.07] [02:02.64]What about the training [02:04.16]I hear its very hard [02:05.31] [02:06.11]I say hard Hard my arse [02:09.57] [02:10.52]A couple of assault courses and a maths test [02:12.43] [02:12.94]A piece of piss [02:13.97] [02:15.10]I've suffered worse than that [02:16.24] [02:17.76]I've suffered much worse than that [02:19.21] [02:22.59]Sometimes I wonder what's wrong with people [02:24.99] [02:26.80]I think they've gone simultaneously soft or stupid [02:29.27]Or they're living in fear [02:30.38] [02:31.09]But I dunno why [02:32.44]There's nothing to fear about space [02:33.85] [02:36.33]Space is brilliant [02:37.25] [02:40.76]Space is brilliant [02:42.35] [02:51.27]And I've told people [02:52.37]I'd pay a million pounds to go to space [02:54.83]Which is true [02:55.57] [02:56.13]I'd pay a million pounds or more to go for an hour [02:58.50] [02:59.14]Or even half an hour [03:00.54]Although a day would be better [03:02.19]A day in space [03:03.30] [03:04.01]That would be something [03:05.31]A day in space [03:06.46] [03:08.63]That would be something [03:10.01] [03:28.23]And I speak to people sometimes [03:29.56]And I ask them [03:30.44] [03:31.62]Well what would you do if you had a million pounds [03:33.87]If you wouldn't take it to space [03:35.18]What would you do with it [03:36.33] [03:37.07]They say I dunno [03:38.48]Buy a house or a car [03:39.87] [03:40.60]Maybe take a holiday somewhere [03:42.54] [03:43.87]"A holiday where " I ask them [03:45.26] [03:46.24]Oh spain egypt [03:48.48]See the pyramids maybe [03:49.89] [03:54.38]See the pyramids maybe [03:55.55] [03:56.49]When they say this to me I look at them [03:58.20] [03:58.84]I look them straight in the eye [04:00.20]And I wait for just a few seconds [04:01.42] [04:02.12]Just so they know what i'm going to say [04:03.90]Is going to be important [04:04.98] [04:07.71]What I'm going to say is going to be important [04:10.79] [04:21.47]And then I say [04:23.62]What better place could you go to than space [04:25.85] [04:26.81]What's a better holiday than that [04:28.21] [04:28.99]Think about lying there when your a hundered [04:30.96]A hundred and ten or whatever [04:32.23] [04:32.78]Looking back on your life and thinking [04:34.31]Well what did I actually do [04:36.59] [04:37.41]What did I actually achieve [04:38.50] [04:39.49]"Oh I saw the pyramids" [04:41.05] [04:42.83]Big deal [04:43.75] [04:45.16]You can apparently see those from space anyway [04:46.67] [04:47.42]You can see all the rest of the blue [04:48.94]And green globe twisting and turning below you [04:50.50] [04:51.15]You can see the sun lighting up the moon [04:53.27]You can feel the stars shining down upon your back [04:55.39] [04:57.57]You dont get that in egypt [04:59.62] [05:00.98]And you don't get that at the pyramids [05:02.22] [05:03.16]And you don't get that by pissing away [05:04.84]Your million pounds on something [05:05.97]That everyone else can do [05:07.05]If they save up long enough [05:08.20] [05:35.46]And the world turns [05:37.91] [05:40.20]And the world turns [05:43.02] [05:45.01]And the world turns [05:49.73]And the world turns [05:52.48] [05:56.52]Elvis sang that