Rocket's Tail

Lyrics for Rocket's Tail

That November night, looking up into the sky You said, "Hey, wish that was me up there It's the biggest rocket I could find And it's holding the night in its arms If only for a moment I can't see the look in its eyes But I'm sure it must be laughing But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen And I thought you were crazy, wishing such a thing I saw only a stick on fire Alone on its journey Home to the quickening ground With no one there to catch it I put on my pointed hat And my black and silver suit And I check my gunpowder pack And I strap the stick on my back And, dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge Nobody seems to see me Then, with the fuse in my hand And now shooting into the night And still as a rocket I land in the river Was it me said you were crazy? I put on my cloudiest suit Size five lightning boots, too 'Cause I am a rocket On fire Look at me go, with my tail on fire With my tail on fire On fire Hey, look at me go, look at me...