Space Weird Thing-Alaska Robotics
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(this is a parody of "Space Oddity" by David Bowie, rewritten to use only the thousand-most frequently used words in the English language-also known as "Up-Go". The performer is Marian Call, from my now-former town of Juneau. To me, the rewritten lyrics sound like the English-versions of anime titles)
Ground control to top space man
Ground control to top space man
Take your small food rocks and put your head-safe on
Ground control to top space man
(ten, ten less one, ten less two, seve
Start the numbers-down, big fires on
six, five, four, three, two, one, up-go!)
Check the start thing and may God's love be with you...
This is Ground Control to top space man,
youre really first in class
and the papers want to know which person's shirts you wear
now its time to leave the space-house since youre there
This is top space man to Ground Control,
Im stepping through the door
and Im relaxing in the air and its weird
and the stars look very different today
For here am I sitting in a lunch box, far above the world
Home space ball is blue, and theres nothing I can do
Though Im past five hundred hundred hundred hundred feet,
Im feeling very cool
And I think my space car knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much -- she knows
Ground Control to top space man,
your talk lines dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, top space man? Can you hear me, top space man?
Can you hear me, top space man?
Can you....here -- Im relaxing in my lunch box
Far above the space night light ball
Home space ball is blue, and theres nothing I can do