40 Seconds

Fate is a funny thing

When you know you can't come back

My attempts were vain

Only to find it's too late… Too late.

Looking out my little window

See all the people there below

Wishing they could all climb in

I'm wishing only that-

It will not blow

40 seconds till the gasses burn

I'm happy to be on the list

Soon I'll be floating way up

Will you send her up here-

For one last kiss?

Tomorrow will be…

Lonely when the sun is far away

Cold and dark, I'm drifting into space

My heart is racing

I feel very strange… but nice

Drinking lunch with-

My little window; shows me

What looks like… Africa

Float down to the gym

Where I work out my tension

I feel so alive

Here, it does not rain-

Where you can't kiss your lover

But you get to fly

Love my electronic life

Will I die for it? Deep in here?

Miles away, my family celebrates

I reach for my video-cam display

But the sound is garbled coming out

'Cause it's just my past life anyway-

…today

It's just my past life anyway-

…today