It's hard to break this one down. About the only thing one can say is that the one line in the song aspires to outer space travel (as do many B-52s songs), but is inherently nonsensical – whether you're talking about celestial coordinates or a map of the planet Venus, there is no sense to the phrase "53 miles west of Venus"; an object in the sky can be degrees west of Venus in sky coordinates, but relative to the planet Venus, west would be a direction on its surface, where every point is Venus. Leaving Venus would mean going "up" not "west."
It's hard to break this one down. About the only thing one can say is that the one line in the song aspires to outer space travel (as do many B-52s songs), but is inherently nonsensical – whether you're talking about celestial coordinates or a map of the planet Venus, there is no sense to the phrase "53 miles west of Venus"; an object in the sky can be degrees west of Venus in sky coordinates, but relative to the planet Venus, west would be a direction on its surface, where every point is Venus. Leaving Venus would mean going "up" not "west."
One song, five words of spacey nonsense.