Cover art for Major Tom by Shiny Toy Guns
Dec. 15, 20091 viewer

Major Tom Lyrics

Second stage is cut
We're now in orbit
Stabilizers up
Running perfect
Starting to collect
Requested data
"What will it effect
When all is done?"
Thinks Major Tom

Back at ground control
There is a problem

Go to rockets full
Not responding
"Hello, Major Tom
Are you receiving?
Turn the thrusters on
We're standing by"
There's no reply


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Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating, weightless
Calling, calling home...
Across the stratosphere
A final message
"Give my wife my love"
Then nothing more


Far beneath the ship
The world is mourning
They don't realize
He's alive
No one understands
But Major Tom sees
Now the life commands
This is my home
I'm coming home

Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating, weightless
Calling home...
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating, weightless
Calling home...
Earth below us
Drifting, falling
Floating, weightless
Calling, calling home...
Home.....

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This is a cover of “Major Tom (Coming Home)” (Originally in German: Major Tom (Völlig Losgelöst), translation: “Major Tom (completely detached)”), is a song by singer Peter Schilling from his album Error in the System. With a character unofficially related to “Major Tom”, the protagonist of David Bowie’s 1972 song “Space Oddity”, the song is about the character being caught in an accident in space.

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December 15, 2009
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