Satellite

I'm all wires and aluminum

Comet dust and nitrogen

I followed everyone's command

First eighteen years were fine and grand

No space junk upon this ship

Flyin' high at thirty-six

Without flash, without conceit

I've done all they asked of me

But every journey that begins should have an ending

Beside this daily stream of data I keep sending

Beyond the stars, where time and space are bending

I miss home

Liftoff August '78

No malfunctions to relate

Thirty billion miles I've come

All those trips around the sun

For my trials with ice and fire

They inked a deal that I'd retire

Air and Space wants me on view

On Independence Avenue[Chorus: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart]

But the brass, they disapproved of my ambitions

After all these years of silence, I still listen

Between fever dreams of static and transmissions

I miss home

Ah

Ah

Wave goodbye to what you know

Don't be sad to see it go

I passed the moon and Earth today

Was so close, so far away

Thrusters useless, fuel used up

Contact lost, completely fucked

Unless they send someone at last

To try and

catch me as I pass

While the final coordinates are pending

For the waves and flares and the fields, I will keep tending

Every journey that begins should have an ending[Outro: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart,

Mary Chapin Carpenter

,

Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart

]

Every journey that begins should have an ending

Every journey

(Every journey)

That begins

(That begins should have an ending)

Should have an ending

(Every journey)

Every journey

(That begins should have an ending)

That begins

(Every journey)

Should have an ending

I miss home