The Man Who Fell to Earth

A new star is born in the stillness of morning The edge of the universe time is expanding It's endless as love ifinitely small Lights in the darkness, no reason at all Billions of years away half moons are sharing Glasses of wine with asteroids passing A galaxy wakes on the wrong side of space Gravity laughs in reality's face Somewhere there, like dust in the air A sphere is drifting too slowly to bare And clinging on tightly to rocks and stones A parasite's calling this dust its home Another second of another day In this corner of space In this dark, cold universe This world that I'm living in makes no sense to me I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth A baby is born in the stillness of morning Ten minutes past five they declared him alive As tears roll down his mother's cheeks And a midwife breathes a sigh of relief While just down the road the last of the drunks Make their way home to pass out on the bus While the first of the businessmen in shirts and ties Get ready to sell some more of their lies In the newspaper offices lights still on They've been up all night waiting for things to go wrong And nobody saw as the wheels came down A young man silently fall to the ground In the houses they're turning on lights Putting blindfolds over their eyes Getting ready for another day at work This illusion that I'm living in makes no sense to me I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth A body is found in the stillness of morning A priest in the street calls out a warning Somewhere above London an air hostess stands A 747 is coming in to land A farmer has started her work for the day Somehow she knows that something has changed Out in the fields she dreams of her son Back to the day when his journey begun An eagle is searching for food in the spring A sperm whale sleeps while a hummingbird sings A lover is waiting for news by the phone Out in the fields a cold wind blows Cross the world there's flashes of light They've been bombing the city all night In the end, what's it all worth? This simulation that I'm living in makes no sense to me I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth A tear is traveling across some skin Molecules of water in sodium spin Atoms are shaking so infinitely small Just lights in the darkness, no reason at all