Daddy Was a Starship Captain Lyrics

It's a silver sunset, as you're finally touching down

I'm standing at the gateway, clutching a box or something

But I can hardly move

You followed a dream beyond where I could see

A dream of flight, of moving faster than air

And no one could catch up to you, no one

It's as if you were never really there

Daddy was a starship captain

And nobody else could catch him

A child of the stars

But fatherless on Earth

When you step off the platform, you look like a ghost

Your sideburns cut like pyramids of gold

Of all the things that I had hoped to say

And practiced to the mirror all those times

The one I wish for most is barred by a law a million years old

And knowing this you don't say a thing

But hold me in your arms

And I rest in peace just to know that I'm your son

Daddy was a starship captain

And nobody else could catch him

A child of the stars

But fatherless on Earth

Please don't take off again