David Bowie Lyrics

Album: Deram Anthology 1966-68

Space Oddity Lyrics

Ground Control to Major Tom

 Ground Control to Major Tom

 Take your protein pills 

 and put your helmet on

 

 Ground Control to Major Tom

 Commencing countdown, 

 engines on

 Check ignition 

 and may God's love be with you

 

 [spoken]

 Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff

 

 This is Ground Control 

 to Major Tom

 You've really made the grade

 And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear

 Now it's time to leave the capsule 

 if you dare

 

 This is Major Tom to Ground Control

 I'm stepping through the door

 And I'm floating 

 in a most peculiar way

 And the stars look very different today

 

 For here

 Am I sitting in a tin can

 Far above the world

 Planet Earth is blue

 And there's nothing I can do

 

 Though I'm past 

 one hundred thousand miles

 I'm feeling very still

 And I think my spaceship knows which way to go

 Tell my wife I love her very much 

 she knows

 

 Ground Control to Major Tom

 Your circuit's dead,

 there's something wrong

 Can you hear me, Major Tom?

 Can you hear me, Major Tom?

 Can you hear me, Major Tom?

 Can you....

 

 Here am I floating 

 round my tin can

 Far above the Moon

 Planet Earth is blue

 And there's nothing I can do.