Lyrics for Space Oddity as interpreted by Novartza

Space Oddity Lyrics
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, liftoff

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 me wife I love her very much
(She knows)

Ground control to Major Tom
Your circuits 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

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archmastermind
01-21-2002

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how can you not love bowie?

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fairy_in_a_musicbox
05-28-2002

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awesome

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nietzsche_66
06-01-2002

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This song used to make me cry when I was little.

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crashinghero
06-02-2002

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on a tangent
this song, written during the height of the space race, is more about bowie's looming alienation than space travel. this is a romanticized conception of casting out from the normal crowd and becoming something new and different. something bowie still succeeds in doing.

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Akasha
06-10-2002

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Actually, Ashes to Ashes hints that it's about Major Tom's addiction to heroin...

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Bite Me
06-15-2002

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One of his earliest hits, you probably know the title came from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. So did Bowie's stage name. The main character's name was Dave Bowman.

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Smoke
07-26-2002

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I thought it said "For here am I sitting in a tin can" not "For years am I sitting in a tin can"...

But I could be wrong.

Anyway, this song creeps me out. I love it.

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Parlatore
07-31-2002

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good


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weezerific:cutlery
08-04-2002

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i love this song. one of my friends always sings it.

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calbearryan
08-14-2002

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I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be "For here am I sitting in a tin can" too. Oh well, Great song.

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Gren901
08-21-2002

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I think song is about celebrity. After you get put into space by the media, and your fans, and their collective expectations, you lose your normal life. You have to leave every mundane thing you loved before. And then once the celebrity leaves, you're stranded in space (so to speak), and you can't ever really come down. Plus there's bowie's drug habbits and such... I guess that makes sense too.

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pabloidz
08-27-2002

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now it's the first time i translate this lyric, and i'm almost crying... wonderful, as its writer.

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HardkoreSaiyan
04-07-2003

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I've heard something totally different. I was told that the song was about an astronaut from the USSR, who was launched into space, and well, somehow circuits screwed up, "your circuit's dead, there's something wrong?" And the guys in the Soviet Union told him that basically he wouldn't survive because there was no way he would get back to earth...but fate took a play and he somehow got back in the atmosphere and was coming down to earth. He was then notified that he had to get out before the spaceship crashed and while everyone watched this exciting event, he tried pulling the latch on his parachute and it broke, and well, he ended up dying.
But umm...wow...it's totally different from what you guys heard lol.

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usa-1
04-18-2003

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I don't think this is about heroin as suggested; there's just not enough evidence-although there may be some alternate meaning. Remember ashes to ashes is a lighter toned song written years later-only the character tom connects them

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majortom6669
04-22-2003

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I believe that this song was created in response to Tom Hanks's inspiring performance in the motion picture Apollo 13, about an astronaut on an ill-fated mission to the moon. I don't believe it was inspired by actual events, however, as this was a fictional story.

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atdi05
04-24-2003

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Wow, majortom6669, that is probably the least intelligent thing I have ever heard in my life. I don't want to crush your little fantasy about this song, but you might want to check up on the years "Space Oddity" was written and "Apollo 13" was produced. And brush up on your history while you're at it. Geez.

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majortom6669
04-24-2003

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I believe that YOU should check up on your facts. I see we have an untrue Bowie fan on the site.

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spacer
04-28-2003

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It's amusing the amount of people with the inability to recognise sarcasm.

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varus
04-30-2003

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Actually, David didn't change his name to Bowie because of 2001: A Space Oddity, which was written in 1968. He had already changed it in 1965/66. The main reason he changed it was due to "the emergence of a young English actor called Davy Jones". Seeing as this actor eventually went on to join the Monkees, I can't blame Bowie for wanting to prevent any confusion from taking place. I got this out of Christopher Sandford's biography on Bowie, which is a great book for anyone who finds Bowie interesting.

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aphekqs
05-08-2003

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I have nothing to add, but hell, I feel like I must leave a comment on this song. Bowie is a genius.

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Kafziel
06-19-2003

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I really hope MajorTom6669 is kidding. Wow.
Anyway, I've always heard it was about a drug overdose, and it makes perfect sense to me. He takes his pills, he's ready for liftoff, he goes into orbit, but something goes wrong and he can't find his way back to Earth. I don't know about any actual evidence to that effect, but I've always thought it was a great way to look at it. It's also a really unique song (despite the fact that it's about drugs) because most drug-related songs of the time were about good trips and opening your mind, while "Oddity" highlights the darker, deadlier side of drugs while still managing to make it seem romantic and even heroic to lift off and never come back.
I'm not going to try to say I know Bowie personally and he told me, or anything stupid like that. It just always seemed to fit. I guess I'll cast my vote with the heroin people above.
Either way, it's a great, classic song.

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Potatoes9000
04-10-2004

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i think this song is about an astronaut who is mesmerized by space and accidentally drifts off into space. however, my friend says it's about an astronaut in the space race, and he commits suicide by pulling all the plugs cuz of the cold war or something like that. or it's about heroin. and by the way majortom6669, this album/song came out in '69, apollo 13 came out in the 90s. and the apollo 13 incident happened in the early 70s. god, ur an ass.

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emoBettyrocket
04-16-2004

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dose anyone remember chandler singing this on friends?! that was my 1st exposure to it...then on the movie mr. deeds....and now i have a david bowie tribute thingy with this song on it...:-)

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the karaoke cupid
04-29-2004

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this song is definitely about some sort of drug, and you all seem to be going with heroin.

whatever it is about, great song.

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vipergt196
05-12-2004

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This song is about Apollo 13 you stupid ass fuckers. I mean come on!!! THINK!!!!!!

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