Capa: O módulo lunar da Apollo 11, a Lua e a Terra. Michael Collins, NASA.
Space Oddity
Compositor: David Bowie, 1972.
Lançada poucos dias antes do lançamento da Apollo 11 – o ônibus espacial com o primeiro pouso tripulado na Lua – essa música de 1969 foi o primeiro sucesso de David Bowie e se tornou uma música de assinatura.
A música é sobre a conturbada viagem espacial de um astronauta imaginário que o deixa flutuando impotente acima da Terra e da Lua.
Ground Control
to Major Tom
Ground Control
to Major Tom
Take your protein pills
and put your helmet on
Ground Control
to Major Tom
Commencing countdown,
engines on
Check ignition and may
God’s love be with you
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five,
Four, Three, Two, One, Lift off
This is Ground Control
to Major Tom
You’ve really made the grade
And the papers want to know
whose shirts you wear
Now it’s time to leave the capsule
if you dare
This is Major Tom
to Ground Control
I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most
peculiar way
And the stars look
very different , today
For here,
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do
Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles
I’m feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows
Ground Control
to Major Tom
Your circuit’s dead,
there’s something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you…
Here am I floating
round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do.