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Elegy for Laika and Albert II

C                                 Am
Each and every one of you will be buried in the ground
F                               G
Where every last one of your species lies
C                        F
Who will remember your name once you're gone?
Am                     F                C
I have written mine across the starry sky

C         G                              C           
And the roaring stopped and I started to float
C                 F                           C
The stars grew so still and close against the black
C                              F                     Am
In all the cold nights I spent lonely singing to the moon
C                       Am              C
I never thought I get to hear her sing back
C                         G            C
In the quiet, I heard my love singing back

You only thought of your dream, as lofty as the heavens
Mine was so simple but you thought it too small
You took it and you burned it with the rocket's kerosene
Save your tears, they mean nothing to me at all

And I'm flying so fast now high among the clouds
Dancing above the green earth, they look just like sheep
I swear I saw the moon smile at me 
As I chased them around the world
But it's getting warm now, I think I'll go to sleep
And my beloved moon will sing me to my sleep

Song Notes

Many people know about how Laika died in service of the Soviet space program. The US did the exact same things but with chimpanzees and other primates which, you may remember, are much more closely related to us than canines. We should and will eventually find our way off this planet, but we hope we leave such cruelty behind.

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