We're slowly reducing our bodies to rubble

I'll be your Sputnik I'll keep you from trouble

We're slowly reducing our bodies to rubble

I'll watch over you yeah I'll be your Hubble

But I won't let you burn out I won't let you lapse into history's path no I won't let you lapse cause this isn't a race to see who will crash I want this to last oh please try and last time I suspended someone in the sky oh they flew much too high yes they flew much too high for the first I didn't want it to last oh please let it last don't make me ask you to stay here unfazed by my side we aren't here to make headlines this is not yet a crisis

But signals are starting to fade those dwindling connections that we once made for our mothers and made for ourselves we never fell we never fell into the motions expected of us I just wanted approval I just wanted love from you and the former and the former before never did I want anything more than your jubilation more than your return I could not let you burn I could not let you burn I could not let you burn I could not

Let

You burn

We're slowly reducing our bodies to rubble

I'll be your Sputnik I'll keep you from trouble

We're slowly reducing our bodies to rubble

I'll watch over you yeah I'll be