Time for flying rockets
For silver jets
For surfing bombs
Surfing on a rocket

Don't pray to go
Please take my hand
Don't get me down
Surfing on a rocket

I'll be back one day
Just pray for me
I'm on my way
Surfing on a rocket

Five, four, three, two, one, zero
No one can stop me to go
You'll never see me again


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Surfing on a Rocket Lyrics as written by Nicolas Godin Jean Benoit Dunckel

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    This seems very Dr. Strangelove, or Cold War-esque. Silver Jets? Flying Rockets? Surfing Bombs? Surfing bombs just recalls that scene from "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" Where Major Guano releases the Bomb and rides it on to the Soviet missile site effectively dooming the world. I think though that this song portrays a bomber pilot who has been called to duty in nuclear war. He's saying goodbye to his love. He asks her not to be sad, dont make this worse than it is, just appreciate me while Im here, as...this is it. He tries to reassure her that he'll be back. He asks for her prayers and leaves to his plane. The rockets are flying, cities burning in thermonuclear heat as he throttles up and gets airborne. The mission is in full swing, unstoppable, and yet he thinks of his love who he will never see again.echnician and the ICBM its self

    agent_hunton July 26, 2006   Link

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