Are You Out There Tonight?

I thought I was a child

An offspring of the universe

Until I saw that it was moving

It was moving in reverse

Borne on a squirt of molten mass

In the original big bang

Been drifting around for quite some time

Been left out here to hang

 

In my spaceship reaching out

I’m bound to be alone

So far from sight is anything here

That looks to be called home

 

(chorus)

Are you out there tonight?

Are you crying alone?

Is your world tilted right

While I’m so far from home?

Aim your tractor beam well

To the place that we must interface

‘Cause I’m falling straight to Hell

Like an angel from Grace

Would that I could see your face

I know I’d make it home

At long last to end this race

Across space too large to roam

 

I thought I had it made

I’d laid out a true course

Figured that I’d found my home

But discovered I was lost

Everything keeps moving on

‘Til it’s so far apart

I don’t know where I’m going

I don’t know where to start

 

I’m so tired of reaching out

Don’t want to be alone

But so far from sight is anything here

That looks to be called home

 

 

Thomas Hubbard (c. 1990)

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