Mercury

If I lived on Mercury I would celebrate With my friends and family My a-hundred-and-ninth birthday Who knows how old I could grow Who knows where the time would go I'm a century on Mercury On Venus, 42 In Martian years I'm just 14 On Jupiter, I'm 2 How much money could I save On candles and the birthday cake Living here I'll go the way My parents' parents grew The Earth my parents' parents knew Is scattering the seed And though the polar ice in the North and the South Is Equatorial water now And though my hometown's temperature Is rising with the seas I'm gonna lift the little hands my little grandad gave to me And if I play halfway as glad or gracefully I'm gonna thank my little grandad's piano hands and narrow feet That he bequeathed his middle kid and then me Live with me on Mercury Bide the time away Pretty soon our pleasures prove To rely on the birthday suits We'll hide behind the pressurised Space-helmets and the clothes Call every birthday seventeen And make a wish for gravity