Space Age

I wrote this song a few years ago, but never got around to recording it. I shot this video on the actually 40th anniversary of the moon walk a few months ago, but only edited yesterday.

SPACE AGE
Words and Music ©2009 by J. Marshall Freeman

My daddy and me
Drove back from the country
To watch man land on the moon
On the TV

I felt safe and warm
In the dark, under his strong arm
While Armstrong made a giant leap
For mankinds destiny

So we blew out all the candles
We turned on all the lights
And plunged headlong into
The Space Age

My dads eyes, they shone
On that momentous dawn
And the Russians went down
In defeat

With our glory secure
We grew pissed at the poor
As they scavenged our shadows
For something to eat

So we cranked the music louder
We opened all of the wine
And, blind drunk, toasted
The Space Age

My daddy and me
We fought all too easily
He built me a rocket
But I misplaced the key

The moon seems far away
At the start of the workday
And fueled by my debt
I pull from the tower

The shuttles went down
So I drive into town
Just one ship in a million
At 14 clicks per hour

And the lights keep on burning
Cause we kill for the oil
And no one mentions
The Space Age

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Space Age
• original song
• j. marshall freeman