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It’s 4 in the morning July in ’69, me and my sister, we crept down like shadows.
They’re bringing the moon right down to our sitting room, static and silence and a monochrome vision.
They’re dancing around, slow puppets silver ground and the world is watching with joy.
We hear a voice from above and it’s history and we stayed awake all night.
And something is said and the whole room laughs aloud. Me and my sister, looking on like shadows.
the end of an age as we watched them walk in a glow, lost in space, but I don’t know where it is.
They’re dancing around, slow puppets, silver ground and the stars and stripes in the sand.
We hear a voice from above and it’s history and we stayed awake all night.
They’re dancing around, it sends a shiver down my spine and I run to look in the sky and
I half expect to hear them asking to come down.
Oh, will they fly or will they fall? To be excited by a long late night.
They’re bringing the moon right down to our sitting room, static and silence and a monochrome vision.
They’re dancing around, slow puppets silver ground and the world is watching with joy.
We hear a voice from above and it’s history and we stayed awake all night.
And something is said and the whole room laughs aloud. Me and my sister, looking on like shadows.
They’re dancing around, slow puppets, silver ground and the stars and stripes in the sand.
We hear a voice from above and it’s history and we stayed awake all night.
They’re dancing around, it sends a shiver down my spine and I run to look in the sky and
I half expect to hear them asking to come down.
Oh, will they fly or will they fall? To be excited by a long late night.
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About watching the moon landings in 1969 on TV.
Oh wow. Thankyou. I've recently randomly fallen in love with this song and I couldn't figure out what it was about. I thought maybe it was about her as a child seeing her parents party and wondering what they were doing but now it makes so much more sense. Such a beautiful song from something so simple.
I've never realized is was about the moon landings. Interesting. Still basically the same scenerio - her parents and their friends are up late partying watching the black and white TV.
American lunar Landing summer 69. It was the biggest event in the world and adults and kids huddled around black and white TVs to watch. Monochrome is a b&w TV I guess, which probably 90 percent of the world still had in 1969, especially the English, I would imagine. I like the song because I was 4 years old that summer. I also like the line about her sister, warms my heart.