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Cosmonauts Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your face ignites a fuse to my patience
Whatever you do is gonna be wrong
There's no time to interrupt the detonation
Be good to me before you're gone
When I met you I was fine with my nothing
I grew with you and now I've changed
What I've become is something I can't be without your loving
Be good to me, it isn't a game

[Pre-Chorus]
Now let me see, it's you and me, forgive good God
How do you suppose that we've survived?
Come on, that's right, left, right
Make lighter of all the heavier

[Chorus]
'Cause you and I will be like a couple of cosmonauts
Except with way more gravity than when we started off
Oh, you and I will be like a couple of cosmonauts
Except with way more gravity than when we started off

[Bridge]
When you resist me, hon', I cease to exist
Because I only like the way I look, when looking through your eyes
And when you come back
You commemorate the penetration of the sun into the deep, dark sky

[Pre-Chorus]
Now let me see, it's you and me, forgive good God
How do you suppose that we'll survive?
Come on, that's right, left right
Make lighter of all the heavier

[Chorus]
You and I will be like a couple of cosmonauts
Except with way more gravity than when we started off
Oh, you and I will be like a couple of cosmonauts
Except with way more gravity than when we started off

[Post-Chorus]
Started, started off, started off
Started off, started off, started off, baby
Started off, started off, started off, now
Started off, started off, started off, baby
Started off, started off, started, started
Started, started
Started off, started off, started off, baby
Started off, started off, started off, now
Started off, started off, started off, baby
Started off, started off, started, started
Started, started

[Outro]
Now we'll be like a couple of cosmonauts
Except with way more gravity than when we started off
Oh, you and I will be like a couple of cosmonauts
Except with way more gravity than when we started off

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mellow_harsher On Apr 17, 2020

[Verse 1]
Your face ignites a fuse to my patience
Whatever you do is gonna be wrong
There's no time to interrupt the detonation
Be good to me before you're gone
When I met you I was fine with my nothing
I grew with you and now I've changed
What I've become is something I can't be without your loving
Be good to me, it isn't a game

[Pre-Chorus]
Now let me see, it's you and me, forgive good God
How do you suppose that we've survived?
Come on, that's right, left, right
Make lighter of all the heavier

[Pre-Chorus]
Now let me see, it's you and me, forgive good God
How do you suppose that we'll survive?
Come on, that's right, left right
Make lighter of all the heavier

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2020-04-17 16:11:50

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by Millieloumongan

3y ago

Makes me think of the book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'.

"...for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes"

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