Spaceman Lyrics
Bang, bang, shoot em' up to the moon
Bang, bang, shoot em' up one, two, three
(One, two, three, four!)
That's what I wanted to be
But now that I am a spaceman
Nobody cares about me
Won't 'cha bring me back down
Safely to the sea
But 'round and around and around and around
Is all she ever say to me
I wanted to go to the moon
I knew that it had to be fun
I told 'em to send me real soon
I wanted to be a spaceman
I wanted to be it so bad
But now that I am a spaceman
I'd rather be back on the pad
Won't 'cha bring me back down
Safely to the sea
But 'round and around and around and around
Is just a lot of lunacy
(Yeah!)
'Round and around and around and around and around
(So bring me back down)
'Round and around and around and around and around
Safe on the ground
Won't 'cha bring me back down
Safely to the sea
But 'round and around and around and around
Is all she ever say to me, yeah
That's what I wanted to be
But now that I am a spaceman
Nobody cares about me
You better bring me back down
I've taken just as much as I can
But around and around and around and around
Is the problem of a spaceman
i love this song...im really in to fairly hard rock/metal.. but Nilsson is a genius and this is his best song.....................fly away and know one will care. LOVE IT
I have listened to this song SO many times in the past month (along with "Gotta Get Up", and "Down". Nilsson had such a great voice, and a witty sense of humor that played out in his lyrics.
I s'pose this could be a metaphor for when you actually get to be with a person you had a huge crush on and finding it to be more than you can handle, or boring, or what have you (A la Sam and Cindy from "Freaks and Geeks").
Or it could just be about wanting to be a spaceman.
I think the song is about the monotony of floating around the earth at high speeds.
No matter the message, It's a catchy, memorable song!
I don't want to be that guy that says every 70s song is about drugs but, for this one I think its about "shooting up" to the moon, taking drugs to get high etc (shoot up heroin etc). Shoot em up to the moon. He wanted to have a good run, heard itd be fun, but he had taken enough and didn't want the drugs anymore.
A space-themed allegory of disillusionment, perhaps.