Man in the Moon

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?