[time: 5:10]
[Lyrics: Martin Walkyier]
[Music: Steve Ramsey]

[for absent friends]

Sorry it has been so long since you received my last

transmission,
meanwhile I've studied them - learned about their strange
condition.

Now I think I understand why they live in such confusion,
sadly they'll never change - I have come to this
conclusion....


Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)


I am the mariner who navigates seas celestial,
astronaut ambassador sent to foreign shores terrestrial.

Now with hindsight I admit I don't admire the humans' lot,
frail bodies - fragile, ill equipped, their lives are hard (but
they are not).


Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)


And when you know the ways of men
then you can only pity them,

every day a raging storm -
castaway in a carbon based life form.


I've wandered far (I've wondered hard) and have one source of
comfort only -
when I share my thoughts with you mortality is not so lonely.

Countless starts between us - myriad the things I miss,
I say farewell and think of home, the static drowns my parting
kiss.


Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)


And as your signal slowly wanes -
the fears return (my growing pains),

here it is for what it's worth -
yet another postcard from planet Earth.


Now with hindsight I admit I don't admire the humans' lot,
frial bodies - ill equipped, their lives are hard (but they are
not).


Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)


And when you know the ways of men
then you can only pity them,

every day a raging storm -
castaway in a carbon based life form.


Planet Earth is great to visit - It's great to visit
(but you wouldn't want to live there.)