N.E.O. lyrics

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Artist: Thomas Dolby
Album: The Gate To The Mind's Eye

Lyrics

N.e.o
Near earth object
A solid body whose orbit lies within the orbit of mars
Moons asteroids. meteorites
And human debris
You can see a meteorite almost any night
Go out to the desert
You might find a piece
They are pieces of stars
Same as you and me
They have travelled through space for thousands of years

Perhaps you will get lucky
But you will never find a piece of soyuz
Or sputnik or apollo 9
They are still out there
They are very faint
And the pollution in earths atmosphere
Washes out their pale light

Floating without air, without light
Or else - charred on the re-entry
They are still out there floating
Within the orbit of mars

Look at it this way:
A river of space, a ribbon of time
Like a burial by a beaurocrat
Undercover of a cold war risk
A cloud of dust-a cloud of rubble
Spinning in space on the heels of the hubble
A parallel, or a temporal rip
In the belly of the cosmos
Somewhere in a hanger
A fossilized finger
Stored by the government, hidden from the press
Some young top gun s first solo
Turned out to be a n.e.o

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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