Astronaut

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This is the overture for Ocean Black and the fact that I can't make the streaming gapless makes me think I should just combine the two tracks and do the ol' "Astronaut/Ocean Black".

It doesn't just contain a Tragically Hip reference: this song wouldn't exist without Locked in the Trunk of a Car.

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Astronaut

They shot me into space
Screaming monkey in a rocket
A little black dot across a yellow face
The image burned into my sockets

They said I’d make a good test case
They said I’d make a comet
They gave me your picture wrapped in lace
In half a heart-shaped locket

And it came too fast to stop it

But they don’t know how old I am

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from Let's Get Light, released June 22, 2021
Music and lyrics: Let's Get Light
Instruments and vocals: Let’s Get Light

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LGL made a pretty good album back in the aughts and then shelved it.

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