Man in the Moon Lyrics

There everyone must die

Reflections in my eyes

Flashing lights of lives

Under the sun

Here I can be alone

Away from flesh and bone

The weary groans of those

Under the sun

And all the while here I am

The man in the moon singing to them

With words as empty as a promised prayer

And with my glib mouth and hollow stare

I proclaim peace and goodwill to men

Not even the divine wind can touch me here

And when the world is burning with a lunatic fear

I need simply fly on dark wings of delusion

To the moon where I can make silent observations

In the safety of the sea of tranquility

Where only the mind exists

Looking down down down on a bloody kingdom

Down to the smoke and squalor of real life

While I live my own in third person

They sing to me yeah

Hey man in the moon

Are you coming down soon

To light up this dark world with your dim reflection

Hey man in the moon

Who are you to assume

We're not headed in the right direction

Hey man in the moon

From your high lofty gloom

Are you laughing or crying or screaming?

Lost

In orbit round the sun

You and I are one

Tethered fast by cords of gravity

Reach

Hands like waves outstretched to me

Bring me down to see

A world of pain and joy under the sun

I'll leave my deathmask behind the shroud

The man in the moon coming down through the clouds

To drink the blood of the earth from the muddy ground

Hearing strangled cries and broken laughing sounds

I'll wait for peace and goodwill to men

They sing to me yeah

Hey man in the moon

Are you coming down soon

To light up this dark world with your dim reflection

Hey man in the moon

Who are you to assume

We're not headed in the right direction

Hey man in the moon

From your high lofty gloom

Are you laughing or crying oh

They sing to me yeah

Hey man in the moon

Are you coming down soon

To light up this dark world with your dim reflection

Hey man in the moon

Who are you to assume

We're not headed in the right direction

Hey man in the moon

From your high lofty gloom

Are you laughing or crying or screaming?