Rocket Man

This song is actually about a man's love for drugs and his family. He's confused and doesn't want to mix it with the family so he's off to a journey after he gets kicked out to find himself.

"She packed my bags last night pre-flight Zero hour nine a.m. And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then I miss the earth so much I miss my wife It's lonely out in space On such a timeless flight"

His wife found out about his drug abuse, kicked him out before he was about to do his drugs. He planned on doing it anyways during that morning. So he gets kicked out, drug is wearing out and he starts to realize how much he misses his wife. Space is the space she's given him. Space is also the space away from home, which is the streets, etc.

"And I think it's gonna be a long long time Till touch down brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home Oh no no no I'm a rocket man Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone"

He's now on this journey to find himself but for now, his love for drugs is fighting his feelings for his family. He's not the same husband/father he was before drugs. No, he's a rocket man aka "Drug User", getting burnt out from all the abuse "Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone".

"Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids In fact it's cold as hell And there's no one there to raise them if you did And all this science I don't understand It's just my job five days a week A rocket man, a rocket man"

Mars would be somewhere other than home. Home is earth to him. Mars is elsewhere, somewhere unfamiliar, small in comparison, strange and scary. Wherever he's at, he's suffering and he doesn't want his kids around him to see this. His job = his abuse, he can't stop. It's like a job to him now.