Postcards From the Stars

[billroper]

I think this is done now. :)

For those of you keeping score, this is the song that ended up with the chord that I *think* is nicked from The Who, except that they go from Emadd9 back to A7, while I head off to Dm6.

Anyway, I hope you like it.

Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2023

Postcards From the Stars

(Chorus)
Send me pictures of the planets.
Send me postcards from the stars.
Shots of rocks and rills and granites
From a robot ship on Mars.
I want to know most everything
About places I can’t be.
I can’t touch the stars for anything,
But my eyes can always see.

I’m a prisoner of gravity,
I’m a captive of my age.
There are places that I long to be
If I could escape this cage.
But robot ships and telescopes
Can go where I can’t fly,
Send photos fanning fading hopes
Spread out before my eyes.

Mariner and Pioneer
Sent shots to tantalize.
Voyager on its grand tour
Would let me fantasize.
A telescope that couldn’t see
With a mirror that was flawed
Got corrective lenses just like me
And Hubble left us awed.

(Bridge)
We’re sending robots out to roam
Round planets that are far from home,
Sending pictures back to me
Of places I can never be.
And the stars are shining bright
As I stare into the dark of night.

I’m a prisoner of gravity
With an eye turned out toward space
And pictures coming home to me
From almost every place.
The light from the first galaxies
And the grooves in Saturn’s rings.
Images to set me free
On imaginary wings.

Send me pictures of the planets.
Send me postcards from the stars.