Jethro Tull - Apogee lyrics

Sailing round the true-blue sphere

Is it too late to bale out of here?

Well, there has to be some better way

To turn back the night

Spin on to yesterday.

The old man and his crew

After all these years

It's apogee

Pilot training and remorse

Spirit friends fly too

At apogee.

Apogee - solar bright

Apogee - through the night

Apogee - overground

Don't think I'll be coming down.

Screened for a stable mate

With nerves of ice we flew

At apogee

No creativity allowed

To pass through stainless veins of steel

At apogee.

Apogee - put the kettle on

Tight-lipped - soldier on

High point - communicate

Don't forget to urinate.

So glad they put this window in

How to explain, how to begin?

See! Tennyson and Wordsworth there

Waiting for me in the cold, thin air.

Beware a host of unearthly daffodils

Drifting golden, turned up loud

Tell the boys back home

I'm gonna get some.

The wrong stuff's loose in here

I'm climbing up the walls

At apogee

So hoist the skull and bones

Death and glory's free

At apogee

Apogee.

A stranger wind, a solar breeze

I'm walking out upon the starry seas

See pyramids, see standing stones

Pink cotton undies and blue telephones.

Goodbye, cruel world that was my home

There's a cleaner space out there to roam

Put my feet up on the moons of Mars

Sit back, relax and count the stars.