Space and song

Lyrics in English. space.
Some things shouldn't need to be explained.

6 June 2009 (writer's block)

think less but see it grow
like a ride like a ride oooh
not easily offended
know how to let it go
-- Phoenix, Lisztomania.

11 March 2009 (describing a bundle of problems)

we're looking at the Big Sky
you never understood me
you never really tried
-- Kate Bush, The Big Sky.

21 January 2009 (SSX3 Gravitude multiple platinum)

We scan our eyes across the lines
In frozen time we're left behind
The ride is our mystery find
In search of life we are assigned
-- Alpinestars, Snow Patrol (Part 1).

12 January 2009 (another xmas, another SaVi)

I wish I were British
maybe then I'd seem clever
at least I'd have an accent
a fair trade for shitty weather
-- Mark Nicholas, I wish.

19 December 2008 (outtahere.)

I'm going to Barbados
back to the palm trees.
I'm going to see my girlfriend
in the sunny Caribbean sea.
-- Typically Tropical Barbados.

1 November 2008 (hitting all the deadlines.)

Here's my key
philosophy:
a freak like me
just needs infinity.
-- Guru Josh Project (myspace), Project Infinity

15 January 2008 (glad I didn't wait for the MacBook Air - no stereo speakers!)

Just say goodbye.
I live and I'll die
hooked on a star,
enraptured by the sky,
in love with a satellite.
-- Blaqk Audio, Semiotic Love (61)

5 October 2007 (CLEO starts its fifth year in space)

-- Familjen, Hög Luft

24 July 2007 (Saratoga slides hit Chicago IETF)

sometimes
it's hard to know where I stand
it's hard to know where I am
well maybe it's a puzzle
I don't understand
-- Keane, Is it any wonder?

12 April 2007 (the Slashdot effect)

what you touch you don't feel
do not know what you steal
destroy everything you touch today
please destroy me this way
-- Ladytron, Destroy everything you touch (Rob Schrab's Rockin' Reinterpretation)

23 March 2007 (CLEO slides, journal paper)

but everything looks perfect
from far away
"come down now"
but we'll stay...
-- The Postal Service, Such Great Heights.

16 December 2006 (a gold card's worth of jetlag.)

even an angel can end up falling
don't you cry because you're crawling
start again, it's a beautiful morning
for satellites
-- September, Satellites.

7 May 2006 (remembering the dead.)

believe the sun will rise
when I reach the light
I will see you
on the other side
-- Paul Van Dyk, The Other Side.

11 February 2006 (Seriously.)

you can live your life lonely
heavy as stone
live your life learning
and working alone
-- Pet Shop Boys, Love comes quickly.

27 October 2005 (Chinese DMC launch.)

satellite satellite satellite
satellite satellite satellite
into the endless night
-- Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Boom Boom Satellite.

18 April 2005 (Hobbit's back catalogue turns up.)

deep in deepest space
with Martian canal lines
and a hint of polar ice
When did the planet go cold?
-- MJ Hibbett, Looking at my hands.

4 November 2004 (election aftermath.)

on a cloudy day,
it's more common than you think
he's my first...
mistake.
-- Vanessa Carlton, White Houses (youtube).

28 July 2004 (recognising Murtuza in Metro.)

life is but a fragile thing, so delicate and pure
an accolade bestowed on us, paper thin
so contemplate the skull, the skull beneath the skin
one day we'll all die, we're paper thin
-- Fry/White, Paper thin.

16 July 2004 (home again.)

Do you ever question your life?
Do you ever wonder why?
Do you ever see in your dreams...
all the castles in the sky?
-- ian van dahl, Castles in the sky (video).

30 June 2004 (router tested.)

satellite's gone
up to the sky
things like that drive me
out of my mind
-- Lou Reed, Satellite of Love (video).

22 April 2004 (voiceovers at Trident.)

you're a half a world away
but in my mind I whisper every single word you say
and before you sleep at night
you pray to me, your lucky star, your singing satellite.
-- OceanLab, Satellite (video).

21 January 2004 (lunch to the UoSAT-2 launch video.)

four three two one
Earth below us, drifting softly
floating weightless, calling calling
-- Peter Schilling, Major Tom (coming home) - video.

19 January 2004 (a whole new week, a whole new world.)

but somewhere in a private place
she packs her bags for outer space
and now she's waiting for the right
kind of pilot to come
-- Savage Garden, To the moon and back (original video)

27 September 2003 (Launch finally happens.)

there goes my love rocket red
shoot it up
shoot it up
shoot it up
-- Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Love Missile F1-11 (video)

6 January 2003 (uploading SaVi vacation work.)

but as the stars are going out,
and this stage is full of nothing,
and the friends have all but gone,
for my life, my god, I'm singing.
-- Steve Hillier, Stars (video)

8 May 2002 (realising I'd forgotten Dad's birthday.)

and when we shoot for the stars
what a giant step
have we got what it takes
to carry the weight of this concept?
-- Tasmin Archer, Sleeping Satellite (video)

23 April 2002 (St George's Day)

I saw two shooting stars last night
I wished on them but they were only satellites
is it wrong to wish on space hardware
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care
-- Billy Bragg, New England (Kirsty Maccoll)