The Astronaut

This song is so beautifully sung and the music is so moving, but I have no idea what the lyrics represent! if anyone knows, get back to me 'cos I've loved this song for ages and would like to know what it's actually about!

I think it's about someone who you see as being completely full of themselves, maybe the tall poppy syndrome. 'I'll blow you out of the sky if you don't get yourself down here' is basically saying you'd be such a beautiful person if your head was to become a little less swollen. I give up trying to figure out what Paul thinks, as beautiful as his mind is, but that's my thoughts anyway.

yeah, something for kate's songs are hard to understand, yet beautiful..

first of all i've always had the idea that the person paul is singing to in this song is a girl. a girl he likes. maybe that's a romantic preconception, or maybe it's just that i like to imagine that paul might be singing to me. because he's lovely and all.

i don't think it's really a matter of understanding something for kate's songs, it's more responding to them and drawing your own interpretation. your interpretation isn't wrong, even if it wasn't exactly what paul was thinking when he wrote the song.

i never really imagined the girl in this song to be full of herself. perhaps. but it seems to me that paul is singing about her with too much affection implied for him to be putting her down for having a swollen head.

i figured she was more of a dreamer, not very down to earth. the fact paul describes her as an "astronaut" to me implies that she's always off in space, exploring places nobody has been before, because space is something we know very little about. he seems to associate her with a sort of magic: "ooh, i can see you... on a clear night i can see you, singing circles away"

it also seems that this girl is a bit unattainable for him, picturing her high up in a window, in space, far away; and he asks her to get herself down to him "i will blow you out of the sky, if you don't get yourself down here". he says that she can't make up her mind. the song seems to be just describing the character of someone who isn't very stable or logical.

mouth.tongue.teeth i love your post! I have had similar thoughts, but also other thoughts.

I have seen it is maybe about people that are very naive about things. Messages are sent out into space in order to achieve "breakthroughs" as such, and this would be a person trying to achive this breakthrough with the person. Asking them to face up to reality, as hard as it may be. And dempsey is posibally suggesting that if the person does not being to naive then he will take it onto his own hands to make them know, which i guess is selfish. But that doesnt necesarilly mean that dempsey is selfish and forcefull. He could have written it about what a friend says about his partner. "he just cant admit it, and face that it's true"..sort of thing.

You should hear this song live solo.. amazing. All the crowd sing :)