I was pulled in your direction
A mix of interest and affection
Between my inertia and your gravity
Now beset by introspection
All I have is circumspection
As I watch the world below me endlessly.
Love and space appear to be on my mind this FAWM!
I was ready to make something that was a little more cheerful and less intense than some of this year’s other pieces, and this little riff hit me. I caught the chorus melody and a few snippets of lyrics on my phone recorder and then transcribed what I’d captured to complete the song.
I was pulled in your direction
A mix of interest and affection
Between my inertia and your gravity
Now beset by introspection
All I have is circumspection
As I watch the world below me endlessly.
I wonder if the satellites get tired of their trajectories
The endless blur of what they see below
I wonder if they ever feel The urgency of something real
While everything around them is aglow
I was pulled in your direction
A mix of interest and affection
Between my inertia and your gravity
Now beset by introspection
All I have is circumspection
As I watch the world below me endlessly.
I know there’s degradation that I will not escape
Someday I’ll feel the pressure and the flame
Losing orbital velocity I’ll burn up in the atmosphere
my trail will be too brilliant to cast blame.
I was pulled in your direction
A mix of interest and affection
Between my inertia and your gravity
Now beset by introspection
All I have is circumspection
As I watch the world below me endlessly.
But now I’m
Spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning
Around and around, around
Spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning
Ceaselessly scanning the ground …
I was pulled in your direction
A mix of interest and affection
Between my inertia and your gravity
Now beset by introspection
All I have is circumspection
As I watch the world below me endlessly.
I map my own projection of the ground that I will cover
Within these laws, there’s nothing that’s implied
In the silence of this moving space, there’s no use saying anything.
It’s freezing yet I’m burning up inside.
I was pulled in your direction
A mix of interest and affection
Between my inertia and your gravity
Now beset by introspection
All I have is circumspection
As I watch the world below me endlessly.
But now I’m
Spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning
Around and around, around
Spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning
Ceaselessly scanning the ground …
I was pulled in your direction
A mix of interest and affection
Between my inertia and your gravity
Now beset by introspection
All I have is circumspection
As I watch the world below me endlessly.
I know there’s degradation that I never will escape
Someday I’ll feel the pressure and the flame
Losing orbital velocity I’ll burn up in the atmosphere
my trail will be too brilliant, too brilliant to cast blame.