Unearthly Dreamins Lyrics - Singles - Cormorant

Meadows of the Motherland, 

your farmers ashes sown 

by fallen stars, 

bear mankind another strand 

of unearthly dreamings grown 

from earthly scars. 

Killers all! he cried, 

flames clawing at his throat 

through melted fore. 

Hands jut from stygian tide 

upon the ferrymans boat, 

dashed on the shore. 

Shrieks of the atmosphere 

deafened the engineer, 

vessel now commandeered 

by twisted chute. 

Thoughts to his warnings spurned, 

promised a safe return, 

Brezhnevs plan unconcerned 

by wild fears 

voiced by a mute. 

Call 

to grieving wife, 

family left below. 

Government strife: 

father in 

thrall. 

His daughters grin 

while playing in the snow. 

Solar panels 

undeployed. 

Radio channels, 

lost in void. 

Foretold to fail, 

rode on a stallion pale. 

Orbit nineteen, 

ordered home. 

Blue and the green, 

roads to Rome. 

Orientation 

from the sun, 

ion propulsion 

manually run. 

Halt 

the second launch, 

thunder from the squall. 

Future blood staunched, 

rains blessed 

fault: 

three crewmen spared 

their companions fall. 

The calm of space. 

Aurora Borealis, 

fire of spirits passed, 

to cleanse of human malice 

mans rise into the vast. 

Burn, burn the ties that bind 

mortals to this terrene rind. 

Yearn, yearn to part the skies, 

upon an ark of sullen eyes. 

He cursed the dust 

that bore him 

-- screaming -- 

bastard child abandoned to the clouds. 

Compost for the Kremlin Wall, 

fed to blooms on Lenins grave 

Marvel as we heroes crawl 

to our deaths so brave! 

said Yuri to solemn friend. 

Soyuz will be a martyrs end. 

You cannot die in my stead, 

he replied. You bring the Moon. 

He turned, hiding tears hed shed, 

and walked to his tomb. 

Gagarin unsheathed his cross, 

and prayed to sway a brothers loss. 

This too shall pass. 

In bygone meadows of the Motherland 

a laborer boy studies planes gone by. 

The unearthly dreamings of a farmhand 

to pluck the planets from a fertile sky.