Starman Lyrics

Lyric discussion by VampedVixen 

Cover art for Starman lyrics by Dar Williams

This is a great sci-fi song and so not like Dar's usual style (probably since it's a cover). This is what it says at the beginning of the song:

Echo, echo, echo, echo..

It’s nine minutes till the new millennium Earth children have successfully united In a partnership for a drug-free planet Notably with no socio-political or cultural replacement for the drugs they’ve forsaken

Meanwhile on the 34th floor of Happiness Limited, Barton Buck kicks back two xanax With some scotch that he was going to give his doorman He puts in a call to a newly acquired Home thousand-watt radio station He has a ticket giveaway for a new multiplex At a suburban mall There’s no answer

It’s eight minutes, forty seconds to the new millennium And Happiness Limited has lost contact with the youth of the world