Bottle Rocket Astronaut

[Verse 1]

I am Burt, the urban bird

I've got one wing that dudn’t work

But I have built a bottle rocket that'll pop me off the Earth

Shoot for the stars?

Nah, that ain't me

I'm just aimin' for that tree

But I would settle for a hedge, both as a bet and literally

When your dubiety finally ebbs and you can find me overhead

I am a bottle rocket astronaut, just watch it and you'll see me

Catchin' up to everybody, makin' it look easy

Breakin' chains with aviation

Natural selection never saw me comin', baby

I am Burt, the urban bird

I've got one wing that dudn’t work

But I've got whippets in my nest, but if they ask, you never heard that

Wanna raid me? They can try, here's a slice of pumpkin pie

But in the backyard I've expanded to a fledgling enterprise

See that goldfish in the bird bath? You get three hints to guess who did that

We put a turtle on a mailbox and a hedgehog on a trash can

We've got funding coming through and big announcements coming soon

We pledge by 2026 we'll put a gopher on the roof

I am a bottle rocket astronaut, just watch it and you'll see me

Catchin' up to everybody, makin' it look easy

Breakin' chains with aviation

Natural selection never saw this comin', baby

[Bridge]

We choose to go to the other thing (Not because it's easy)

Not to the moon, not to the moon, to the other thing

Not because they are easy, but because they are hard (It's just to prove we can)

Because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept (It's not because it's easy)

And one we intend to win

I am a bottle rocket astronaut, watch it and you'll see me

Catchin' up to everybody, makin' it look easy

Breakin' chains with aviation

Now we got Charlie Darwin freakin' rolling in his grave (Eyy!)

Little critters in the sky, little critters in the sky

Little critters in the sky, little critters where they don't belong

Little critters in the sky

I am Burt, the urban bird

Keep me down? Dudn’t work