He is like fire, burning through time
As old as forever, but fast in his prime
I saw his blue spaceship materialise
He looked out and said to me, "run for your life!"

I don't know why I never thought to ask him for his name
But I really don't think he'd have told me the truth anyway
But that's ok

It's completely terrifying but it's so so exciting
He said I was brilliant and I could change the world
So many places I've been, there's so much more to see
We've got galaxies and planets and moons
And an awful lot of running to do

As a full-time companion he gave me a key
And a phone with a signal in every galaxy
As we fell through the vortex I felt so free
Please don't let this danger just be another dream

'Cause my life before you was unreasonably mundane
I've never been happier although we face death every day
I wouldn't have it any other way

It's completely terrifying but it's so so exciting
He said I was brilliant and I could change the world
So many places I've been, there's so much more to see
We've got galaxies and planets and moons
And an awful lot of running to do

(And you know you can fix that chameleon circuit
if you just try hotwiring the fragment links and
superseding the binary binary binary binary...)

It's completely terrifying but it's so so exciting
He said I was brilliant and I could change the world
So many places I've been, there's so much more to see
We've got galaxies and planets and moons
And an awful lot of running to do


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    I always think of this song as a Rose song.

    Plottoberryon September 25, 2011   Link

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