“Astronaut Lullabies” Soundtrack

Golden Age World
© 3/12 Jim Ocean

Oh the Earth is a beautiful woman
About seventy-five in human years and
She looks at the sky
With blue-green eyes
Yes the Earth is a beautiful Golden Age World

Oh the Earth is a dutiful mother and
She loves with a fierce magnetic heart
And through fire and nice
She’s sure made things nice
Yes the Earth is a powerful Golden Age World

She mothers us
And suffers us
And wonders as we grow
We’ll leave someday
To someplace far away
But until that day I know
That I want to stay..cause…

The Earth is a mutable woman
And we’re only beginning to know who she is
Such a beautiful face
To look at from space
Yes the Earth is a beautiful, so unforgettable, completely unbelievable
Golden Age World.

Coming of Age in the Milky Way
By Jim Ocean

Playful as otters
Poisonous as snakes
We’re descended from things
That would make your heart ache

Fast as a falcon or
Slow as a snail
We’ve the instincts of insects
And the dreams of a whale

This is the age of recovery
From all that we’ve done
This is the age of discovery
As we stare at the sun

Embrace a bright heart
For the sake of our kind
And leave the mind of the reptile far behind
Leave the mind of the reptile far behind.

Coming of age in the Milky Way (2X)

(“I love you baby ‘cause you’re coming of age!”)

Graceful as spiders
Fragile as cells
We should be shedding our skins
And breaking free of our shells

Living our lives
Like a blue bottle fly
But we’ve learned how to love
And we’ve learned how to cry

We’re Earth’s adolescents
We’re about to be weaned
In a test of our species
In a test of our genes

Stay close to your love
Stay close to your dreams
Be more of a human
And less a machine
Be more of a human
And less a machine….

Coming of age in the Milky Way (2X)

Clever as virus we’re as
Strong as a horse
We’re descended from things
That go back to the source

Deep as the ocean and
High as a cloud
Keep asking the question
And say it out loud
Keep asking the question
What is life all about?

Coming of age in the Milky Way…
(Repeat fade…)

The Sidewalk Astronomer
Copyright / Jim Ocean / 2010

On a clear San Francisco night
When the fog’s way out past the Farallons
And there’s a sliver of a moon shining on Berkeley
John Lowry Dobson calls to me
From the sidewalk he says:

“Come see the moon tonight.”
“Come see the Universe and all the light.”
“It’s traveled for so long.”
“Oh please don’t turn away.”
“Come see the turning of the Milky Way.”

“It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
Just like a song.”

He shows me the mountains on the Moon… he says:
“They’re as high as the Andes…”
And though it’s cold tonight he’s alright
There’s a light inside him burning bright
I feel it, then I say goodnight
And to the next curious eyes he says:

“Come see the moon tonight.”
“Come see the Universe and all the light.”
“It’s traveled for so long.”
“Oh please don’t turn away.”
“Come see the turning of the Milky Way.”

It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
Just like a song.”

On a clear San Franciscan night
I saw the shadows of the mountains
The mountains on the Moon.
The Sidewalk Astronomer
Copyright / Jim Ocean / 2010

On a clear San Francisco night
When the fog’s way out past the Farallons
And there’s a sliver of a moon shining on Berkeley
John Lowry Dobson calls to me
From the sidewalk he says:

“Come see the moon tonight.”
“Come see the Universe and all the light.”
“It’s traveled for so long.”
“Oh please don’t turn away.”
“Come see the turning of the Milky Way.”

“It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
Just like a song.”

He shows me the mountains on the Moon… he says:
“They’re as high as the Andes…”
And though it’s cold tonight he’s alright
There’s a light inside him burning bright
I feel it, then I say goodnight
And to the next curious eyes he says:

“Come see the moon tonight.”
“Come see the Universe and all the light.”
“It’s traveled for so long.”
“Oh please don’t turn away.”
“Come see the turning of the Milky Way.”

It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
It’s playing like a song…
Just like a song.”

On a clear San Franciscan night
I saw the shadows of the mountains
The mountains on the Moon.

Say Goodbye to the Moon
© Jim Ocean 10/10

They say the sun will be done one day
And all of this will be burned away
Even the moon is a fickle thing
She’s a tease
She’s a runaway

Something happened long ago
Between the Earth and the Moon
Since then she’s been packing her bags to go
S he will fade like a rising balloon

(Chorus)
But oh, how she shines so bright
Oh, yes she shines so bright on you and I
Say Goodbye to the Moon
Oo, Oo

The Moon’s grown tired of our lies
Weary of blood and of songs
Lovers, tides and a vampire’s eyes will look
But she’ll be gone…

She’s seen love live like a fugitive
She’s seen love hid from the sun
She’s seen love being held captive
She’s seen love live on the run…

(Chorus)
But oh, how she shines so bright
Oh, yes she shines so bright on you and I
Say Goodbye to the Moon

Just like the Moon orbits the Earth
Love circles the heart
So if the Moon’s going away
A little each day
Don’t let love leave your heart
Like a light that goes dark
What do you say?
Oo, Oo
Oo, Oo

So when you look at the Moon tonight
Shining above
Hold onto it with all your might
And don’t let go of your love
Don’t let go of your love.

(Chorus)
But oh, how it shines so bright
Oh, yes it shines so bright on you and I
Say Goodbye to the Moon
Say Goodbye to the Moon

Oo, Oo

Say Goodbye to the Moon
Say Goodbye to the Moon
Say Goodbye to the Moon

The Loneliest Thing in the World
© Jim Ocean/2010

The loneliest thing in the world
Is not on this earth
It’s on another world
So far away
So far from home…

The loneliest sight in the world
Is the bright empty plain
Of a red Martian sunset
Where the weather is cold
And gets into your bones…

And the dust and the ghosts
That cover your world make it hard
Hearing your words
And the earth is just
Another star in the sky…

The loneliest wait
Is the time that it takes
For your voice to travel through space
Twenty minutes of holding your breath
For a view…

And the scene that unfolds
Of a dry ancient sea that’s so old
Water is memory
Lying deep in the ground
Under your feet

And the sound of your wheels
I can hear almost feel
When I close my eyes
From the Earth I’m just
Another star in the sky…

The loneliest thing in the world
Is not on this earth
It’s on another world
So far away
So far from home…

Millions of miles
Is a long way from home.

Super Earth
© 2011 jim ocean (Thank You Kepler!)

Hey everybody have you heard?
Someday we’re gonna have to leave this Earth
I mean this rock in space my friend
If we’re lucky to survive by then
When everything up to Mars
Will be melted like a snickers bar
We’ll have to find a place to run
And wave goodbye to that Big Red Sun

Time to take a look around in the neighborhood
Find a place to start again
Pack your bags we’re going someplace better
with our friends
Oh…Super!
Super Earth…

We’ll travel far into the void
Like Christopher Columbus on steroids
We’ll find a star with stellar weather
A little diamond that’ll last forever
Our new home will blow your mind
There’ll be 27 moons and fourteen rings to shine
Bigger waves and bigger surf
Imagine surfin’ on a Super Earth!

Time to take a look around in the neighborhood
The grass ‘ll be much weirder there
Pack your bags it’s time to breathe
another planet’s air
Oh…Super!
Super Earth…

So, hey everybody it’s our fate
If we survive we’ll have to migrate
You can watch the ‘the show’ from Mars
But I’ll be leavin' to go to the stars

I’ll take my chances out in space
Another story for the human race
We’ll find a place for pure adventure
Just like the Earth only…better!

Time to take a look around in the neighborhood
The Earth’ll be just a relic
Pack your board we’re going someplace really psychedelic
Oh…Super!
Super Earth…

10, 9, 8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…
Blast Off!!! Oh Super Earth!!!

Sugar in Space
© 2011 Jim Ocean

Sugar in Space
Bread crumbs through the darkness
Water everywhere
A place for life anywhere…

There’s rain in a cloud
And fish in the sea
There’s worms in the ground
There’s love in you and me

In the vacuum of space
Sweetness abounds
Making a place
Where life can evolve

And something for love to keep surviving
Something for love
To keep finding a way

Nothing’s a word
For something unseen
You know that the void
Has tricks up it’s sleeves

In the vacuum of space
Sweetness dissolves
Making a place where
Life can evolve

Something for love
Something for feeling
Something for love
To keep believing like

Sugar in space
Breadcrumbs through the darkness
Water everywhere
A place for life anywhere

Sugar in space
Stones to walk the river
Water…
A place for love anywhere

Some folks think the stars
Are ancient points of light
And some folks think the stars
Are atoms that ignite
Some folks think the stars
Are proof that there is faith

And some folks say the stars are making
Sugar in space…

Macro to Micro
© 2011 Jim Ocean

We are small
The smallest thing

You’ve ever seen
We are small
Our reality may be fantasy

We are vast as space
Bigger than the Milky Way
We can grow so wide
There’s a universe inside
I know…

(chorus)
Macro to Micro
Micro to Macro and
Macro to Micro again
Small as the atom
Large as the universe
Macro to Micro again

We are young
Younger than a baby born yesterday
We are young
We can barely form words to say

We are old
We’ve been around a long, long time
Old as dirt
Older than the stars that shine…

(repeat chorus)

Feel your blood
Flowing through the rivers in your arms
Feel your love
Flowing on forever to the stars

We are tall
Taller than the tallest tale
You’d fabricate
We are tall
The stories in our DNA
Replicate

We are short
Our melodies don’t last that long
Short and sweet
Singing in an endless song

(repeat chorus)

The First To Go Under
© Jim Ocean 2009

They’ll be the first to go under
The first ones displaced
The first to seek shelter
From the sea’s rising waves

It’ll make such strange history
They’ll be the first to go under the sea

Everything under
Under three feet
One hundred million people
All in retreat

It’ll make such sad history
They’ll be the first to go under the sea

Goodbye to the palm trees
Goodbye to the sands
Goodbye to the sunset
On low lying islands

And we’ll watch it all on TV
They’ll be the first to go under
The first to go under…
They’ll be the first to go under the sea