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  • Ground Control to Major Tom

  • Ground Control to Major Tom

  • Take your protein pills

  • and put your helmet on

  • Ground Control to Major Tom

  • Commencing countdown

  • engines on

  • Check ignition

  • and may God's love be with you

  • This is Ground Control to Major Tom

  • You've really made the grade

  • And the papers want to know

  • whose shirts you wear

  • And it's time to leave the capsule

  • if you dare

  • This is Major Tom to Ground Control

  • I'm stepping through the door

  • And I'm floating in a most

  • peculiar way

  • and the stars look very different

  • today

  • For here am I sitting in my tin can

  • far above the world

  • Planet Earth is blue

  • and there's nothing I can do

  • Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles

  • I'm feeling very still

  • and I think my spaceship

  • knows which way to go

  • Tell my wife I love her very much

  • (Kelly Bird: She knows)

  • Ground Control to Major Tom

  • Your circuit's dead

  • there's something wrong

  • Can you hear me, Major Tom?

  • Can you hear me, Major Tom?

  • Can you hear me, Major Tom?

  • Can you....

  • Here am I floating round my tin can

  • Far above the Moon

  • Planet Earth is blue

  • and there's nothing I can do

Ground Control to Major Tom

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