[Verse 1] Thought I was a spaceman Digging out my heart In some distant sand dunes In a car park Cause the desert had encroached upon The places where we lived People like me fight To keep the demons in But we never succeeded We never succeeded In fact we failed [Verse 2] Thought I was a spaceman Digging out my heart In some distant sand dune In a car park By the empty harbour Where the junk boat phantoms float The fight for happy valley Sadly, the line broke [Verse 3] Thought I found my black box Washed up on the shore On outlying islands Past the land fall Thought I thought I'd found it But that was not true at all I'd walked into a bar Raised hell [Verse 4] Cut the chasm out me Always and always the same Put the ghost in writing And let it be (you again) Thought I was a spaceman Digging out my heart In some distant sand dune In Hyde Park [Verse 5] Thought I was a spaceman Digging out my heart In some distant sand dune You again Thought I was a spaceman Digging out my heart In some distant sand dune You again You again You again