Laika Lyrics - Moxy Fruvous

When I was 3, my mother said to me 

Eat up your greens and say your grave 

While on TV they put a dog in space 

And left here there... you should've seen her face 

When I was 5, the dream was still alive 

And Walter Cronkite said: "One day we'll earn our daily bread 

Conducting things in outer space" 

But still on earth I thrive... and you pretend I'm not alive 

And walk by with my substitute 

While I fasten the oxygen valve on my space suit 

When I was 8, we shared a cloakrack - it was great 

And I pretended I had so much on my plate 

I had a speech to write, about moonshot trajectory 

And during phonics class, perfected my delivery 

Now the band's playing "Hail to the Chief" 

While my capsule's out floating by some tropical reef 

all the experts can agree on, regarding your motives 

in the cape canaveral crash... is that they know nothing 

it puzzles me so... 

Now I'm full grown, and I've a spacecraft of my own 

But there you sit, still upon your Earthly throne 

Hey darling, throw this 'space-pup' a bone 

Don't touch that dial, don't hang up that phone