He first learned the word "star" in a nursery rhyme

A verse sung to Mozart, a theme he heard every night

And when they told him to shoot for the moon

He knew he would do it

Moving beside the planets

Dancing to the tune of their music

Readin DK space encyclopedias, recesses missed

Each weekday at six, space episodes on PBS kids

He'd watch the comets flyin'

Learned at twelve to spot Orion

Read Dawkins, Hawking, Tyson

And then moved on to rocket science

Soon traversed the universe

Flew unburdened, swooped and swerved

Left behind the rules of Earth and hung a right by Jupiter

Floatin' on past Oberon, every heavenly deity

Slowly drifting freely but alone towards the Pleiades

He saw the spirals of galaxies in his fingerprints

The patterns of Saturn's rings depicted on every single tip

And gazed into the past at a perforated black canvas

Full of tiny lanterns that may already have half vanished

He was a speck of dust in the celestial ether

Left the clutches of Mother Earth

Uncertain when next he'd see her

A part of the stardust

The hardest part was losing track

Of his human past and future

Consumed in the blue and black

And after so long as a cosmic message in a bottle

He wanted a shore to wash up on, a modern day Apollo

Post-Sagan space vagrant drained from aimless astral drift

His addled brain turnin' asteroids to asterisks

At a loss, thoughts turned to his life before blasting off

"I just want to go home" admitted the astronaut

And as his words reverberated cross light-minutes

They found a soul

"So come home"

Through the static came the sound of ground control

But when he turned around to face the void in the dark

He heard "ｓｏ ｃｏｍｅ ｈｏｍｅ"

Spoken from a voice in the stars

But when he turned around to face the void in the dark

He heard "ｓｏ ｃｏｍｅ ｈｏｍｅ"

Spoken from a voice in the stars