Wibble wibble acoustic guitar

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Yes, it's that slow track in the middle of the album everyone looks forward to so much. More to the point, it's a shameless pastiche of early Hawkwind when Dave Brock still played acoustic guitar sometimes, and as such is pretty much a re-tread of "Space Is Deep" without the song craft. Also, it's a kind of daft song about a person in cryogenic suspension in a spacecraft that never left for its mission, eternally orbiting an earth that died below... and as such includes the immortal couplet "But then below me Earth expired, My rocket engines never fired," for which I should be hanged by the neck until very dead indeed.

Anyway, wibbly synths, an 6-string acoustic trying very hard (and failing) to sound like a 12 string, and me doing wailing high-pitched "oooh" backing vocals. All the ingredients of a great track, utterly ruined by the ineptitude of the cook.

I've floated here ten thousand years,
Locked in dreams and nightmare fears,
Machinery keeps me alive,
Entombed in steel and cold as ice,

A golden sunrise every hour,
Casts rays upon my ivory tower,
The solar panels drink their fill,
Extend my life against my will,

Trapped in orbit round this wasteland planet of my birth,
Now there's no way I can go back down to Earth,

To journey into space so deep,
I entered this cryonic sleep,
But then below me Earth expired,
My rocket engines never fired,

Trapped in orbit round this wasteland planet of my birth,
Now there's no way I can go back down to Earth,

I've floated here ten thousand years,
Locked in dreams and nightmare fears,
Machinery keeps me alive...