Dave The Moon Man-Looper

[ti:Dave The Moon Man] [ar:Looper] [al:Up A Tree] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.09]Artist：looper [00:01.71]Songs Title：dave the moon man [00:04.39] [00:07.95]Drunk and lying outside on the lawn [00:11.13]Dave the moon man [00:12.75] [00:15.84]He'd look up at the blurred stars [00:17.84]As the dew on the grass [00:19.40]Soaked through the back of his jacket [00:21.20]And the back of his trousers [00:23.01]And then he'd look towards the moon [00:24.84] [00:29.59]All that distance from the surface [00:30.52] [00:31.84]He was pinned down on [00:33.46] [00:34.09]To the surface glowing in the darkness [00:35.33]With nothing but space all the way in between [00:38.64]Nothing to hold onto and yet somehow [00:42.30]Someone had managed to get there [00:44.36]Someone had managed to do that [00:46.11]A truly impossible thing [00:47.61] [00:52.85]So he'd get up out of the grass [00:54.78]Light hearted again [00:55.28]It made everything else possible [00:57.47]Anything you could think of [01:00.46]Anything you were stuck with [01:02.02]It could be done because that had been done [01:04.45] [01:05.02]Someone had got up and gone to the moon [01:07.22]And nothing else was more impossible than that [01:09.09] [01:14.40]Dave the moon man [01:15.40] [01:32.87]But sober and playing around on the Internet [01:35.18] [01:35.74]He started to find bits and pieces [01:37.11]Dave the moon man [01:38.73]Things about the Van-Allen Belt [01:41.48]And about Kodak film and dual light sources [01:43.66] [01:45.10]And he talked to people who knew about similar stuff [01:47.28] [01:47.84]And he read bits in magazines and books [01:49.95] [01:55.07]First time I met him was at a party [01:57.63]He was surrounded by a group of people [01:59.63]And he was giving short lectures [02:00.69]About all the stuff he had learned [02:03.12] [02:03.68]Going 'round the party one group at a time [02:06.05]With all the energy of someone newly born to a religion [02:08.61] [02:09.80]You had to wait your turn [02:10.94]If you wanted him to tell you about it [02:12.75]So I waited my turn [02:14.18] [02:18.05]The first thing was the Van Allen Belt [02:19.86]He said an outer layer of the atmosphere [02:21.67]That all the shuttle flights stay inside [02:23.87] [02:24.48]That protects the earth from radiation [02:25.98] [02:27.79]He read somewhere that if the astronauts [02:29.78]Had really gone beyond that [02:31.34]And gone all the way to the moon [02:33.15]The radiation would have killed them soon afterwards [02:35.16] [02:36.16]Then there were the photographs [02:37.32]Of astronauts walking on the moon [02:38.66] [02:39.41]He said you could tell from the shadows [02:41.28]That the light sources were all wrong [02:43.17]Which suggested studio lighting [02:44.72] [02:45.78]And there was something about [02:46.72]The photograph of the footprint too [02:48.72] [02:49.65]（Incomprehensible） could leave such [02:50.78]A deep impression on the surface of the moon [02:52.72]Then the thrust of the rocket when it was landing [02:55.34]Should have forced two big mounds [02:57.79]Up on either side of the rocket [02:59.10] [02:59.67]But there are none in the pictures [03:00.90] [03:09.20]There was a whole load of stuff [03:11.07]A whole load of stuff more than that [03:12.70]And so he was coming to believe it was a hoax [03:15.19] [03:15.82]And that no one had ever been to the moon [03:18.07] [03:31.36]I thought he had a mission [03:32.80]Dave the moon man [03:33.61]To prove to everyone that no one [03:35.98]Had ever landed on the moon [03:37.54]But that wasn't it at all he was telling everyone [03:40.35]All this stuff he'd learned 'cause he hoped that [03:43.72]Someone could prove to him it was wrong [03:46.28]And it wasn't just a hoax [03:47.40] [03:48.27]Because dreaming was so much harder otherwise [03:50.21]And it was so much harder to find the belief [03:53.58]To get things done [03:54.95]Lying out on the lawn at night [03:56.64]Drunk with the dew soaking [03:59.13]Through the back of your jacket [04:00.50]And all that distance between here and there [04:02.09] [04:07.76]And he really wanted to believe [04:09.07]That people had traveled to the moon [04:10.76]In that crazy rocket [04:11.45]That looked as if it was made [04:14.00]Out of tin foil and cardboard [04:15.06]He really wanted to believe [04:16.81]That they'd managed to get it there [04:18.49]Just by strapping enough fuel on [04:19.93]Even though today [04:21.86]You probably wouldn't trust it [04:24.11]To get you down the shops [04:25.86] [04:30.04]Dave the moon man [04:30.85]Dave the moon man