The Man Who Fell to Earth

A new star is born in the stillness of morning

The edge of the universe time is expanding

It's endless as love ifinitely small

Lights in the darkness, no reason at all

Billions of years away half moons are sharing

Glasses of wine with asteroids passing

A galaxy wakes on the wrong side of space

Gravity laughs in reality's face

Somewhere there, like dust in the air

A sphere is drifting too slowly to bare

And clinging on tightly to rocks and stones

A parasite's calling this dust its home

Another second of another day

In this corner of space

In this dark, cold universe

This world that I'm living in makes no sense to me

I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth

A baby is born in the stillness of morning

Ten minutes past five they declared him alive

As tears roll down his mother's cheeks

And a midwife breathes a sigh of relief

While just down the road the last of the drunks

Make their way home to pass out on the bus

While the first of the businessmen in shirts and ties

Get ready to sell some more of their lies

In the newspaper offices lights still on

They've been up all night waiting for things to go wrong

And nobody saw as the wheels came down

A young man silently fall to the ground

In the houses they're turning on lights

Putting blindfolds over their eyes

Getting ready for another day at work

This illusion that I'm living in makes no sense to me

I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth

A body is found in the stillness of morning

A priest in the street calls out a warning

Somewhere above London an air hostess stands

A 747 is coming in to land

A farmer has started her work for the day

Somehow she knows that something has changed

Out in the fields she dreams of her son

Back to the day when his journey begun

An eagle is searching for food in the spring

A sperm whale sleeps while a hummingbird sings

A lover is waiting for news by the phone

Out in the fields a cold wind blows

Cross the world there's flashes of light

They've been bombing the city all night

In the end, what's it all worth?

This simulation that I'm living in makes no sense to me

I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth

I'm still dreaming about the man who fell to earth

A tear is traveling across some skin

Molecules of water in sodium spin

Atoms are shaking so infinitely small

Just lights in the darkness, no reason at all