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astronomy - mark kozelek with ben boye and jim white lyrics

i laid my head in your lap and we flew and we flew
and we got to their mother’s house, we took the kids’ room
painted pink and white, robin’s egg blue
the kids spent a few nights at their dad’s
and one night they shared their mother’s room
we slept a lot of the day on friday
we slept a lot of the day on sat-rday
we slept a lot of the day on sunday too
because after all, it’s been a busy year with me and the kids are busy too
we spent some time looking out the small window of the room
into the backyard with the lovely winter view
the dead trees coated with soft white snow
and the neighbors’ yard with a permanently parked turquoise fishing boat

one day we gathered in the living room to play scrabble
i asked your daughter, “what is it that you want to be when you get older?”
she said, “there are so many things, so many many things
right now, i love anything to do with astronomy”
i said, “well when i was your age, i knew exactly what i wanted to be”
and she said, “well, what is that?”
i said, “a songbird flying from tree to tree to tree”
she said, “is that what you are?”
and i said, “yeah, i write songs and i fly around the world and i sing”
she said, “well when you fly home, could you please write and sing a song for me?”
my father sat at the piano and taught the littlest one how to play a scale in the key of c
when they were done, i asked my father to share with us his earliest memory
he said news of his brother dying in pearl harbor and he asked what is mine
i said, “hearing the news of the watergate scandal”
and he said, “ah, you must have been five”

and as the adults talked about colonoscopies
and stents and arteries and cholesterol medication
suddenly we lost the children
off to their rooms, in their own little worlds
doing whatever it is that kids get into
while us old people talked about old boring people things
like trump banning flights into the united states
we watched on tv series like eugene levy’s schitt’s creek
my god, my dad snores pretty loud when he falls asleep

and i remembered listening to this old people cr-p
through the walls, when i was young
and i know someday the kids will be sharing their earliest memories
long after i’m gone
and i put my coat and my hat and my gloves on
finished a cup of lipton tea
as i opened the door, everybody said
“where are you going, mark? my god, it’s freezing”
as i walked along the frozen cornfields, words came to me
astronomy, astronomy, i wish i knew more about astronomy
but i’m old and my mind is occupied so many other things
like my expenses for 2016 and how a friend died at 60 and another at 53
astronomy, astronomy, if you’re into that it makes a lot of sense to me
if this planet’s not your cup of tea, i gotta say it also makes a lot of sense to me

somebody asked you if there’s life on other planets
you excitedly said, “yes, there’s gotta be!”
you said it so convincingly
i never thought about it much before but thanks to your conviction
with you now i completely agree
astronomy, astronomy, i asked, “did you ever see the movie apollo 13?”
you said, “no, what’s it about?”
i said, “a disrupted voyage to the moon, starring tom hanks and gary sinise”
you looked down at the floor

i could tell i didn’t win any points with you with that
you don’t care about old people movies with bill paxton or tom hanks
astronomy astronomy astronomy astronomy
astronomy astronomy astronomy astronomy
who knows, maybe you’ll have a career one day in astronomy

and maybe one day you’ll share your earliest memory with your family
maybe it’ll be your sister being born when you were three
as i walked along the road, the snowflakes landed on my cheeks
i wrote this song for you, it’s called “astronomy”
i came back, i said, “did you ever see the movie alien?”
her mom said, “no, she’s too young for that mark, it’s too disturbing”
i said, “well what about my favorite movie when i was a kid, the planet of the apes?”
you just looked at me with that really bored look on your face
astronomy, astronomy, next time i see you i’m going to ask you to tell me about astronomy
astronomy, astronomy, next time i see you i’m going to ask you to tell me about astronomy
cause obviously i don’t know nothing about astronomy

- mark kozelek with ben boye and jim white lyrics

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