Shoot The Moon

Hugh Blumenfeld Shoot the Moon written by Hugh Blumenfeld Hugh Blumenfeld vocals/acoustic guitar Mark Dann bass/vocals/drums/electric guitar Shane Shanahan percussion When I was young all I wanted was the moon Hung that National Geographic map in my room In seventh grade, Mythology 101 They called me Little Endymion You remember me now Space was the object of all my country's desire And the skies of my childhood were laced with launching pad fire And I was the boy who stood under a streetlamp at night Waiting for those strange blue lights To come take me away Shoot the moon Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity Just the stars and me Shoot the moon Give me a home in the 21st century A little less gravity I could fall free Shoot the moon If I'd been ten years older, I might have been tripping on Yasgur's farm But I probably would have been a Phantom flying over Viet Nam In a dream of altitudes where blue turns black And never looking back At the pieces on the ground But I saw the choppers rise out of Saigon's fall And my fingers traced the writing on the long black wall And I knew there'd be no spaceships in my future I guess I was born a little late, or way too soon. Shoot the moon Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity Just the stars and me Shoot the moon Give me a home in the 21st century A little less gravity We could fall free Shoot the moon Well, a quarter of a million miles isn't really that far It took me two Chevys, but I've done it in a car Driving from town to town with this old guitar Built in 1969 One small step for mankind Shoot the moon Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity Just the stars and me Shoot the moon Give me a home in the 21st century A little less gravity It is my destiny From Hygh Blumenfeld "Rocket Science" PRIME CD Copyright ? 1997 Hugh Blumenfeld/Hydrogen Jukebox (ASCAP) http://primecd.com/hugh.htm