N.e.o. Lyrics - The Gate To The Mind's Eye - Thomas Dolby

N.E.O. 

Near Earth Object. 

A solid body whose orbit lies within the orbit of Mars. 

Moons Asteroids. Meteorites. 

And human debris. 

You can see a meteorite almost any night. 

Go out to the desert 

They are pieces of stars, 

You might find a piece. 

Same as you and me 

They have travelled through space for thousands of years. 

Perhaps you will get lucky 

but you will never find a piece of Soyuz 

or Sputnik or Apollo 9 

They are still out there 

They are very faint 

And the pollution in earths atmosphere 

washes out their pale light 

Floating without air, without light 

Or else - charred on the re-entry 

They are still out there floating 

Within the orbit of Mars. 

Look at it this way: 

a river of space, a ribbon of time 

like a burial by a beaurocrat 

undercover of a cold war risk. 

a cloud of dust-a cloud of rubble 

spinning in space on the heels of the Hubble 

a parallel, or a temporal rip 

in the belly of the Cosmos 

a fossilized finger 

Somewhere in a hanger 

Stored by the government, hidden from the press 

some young top gun s first solo 

turned out to be a N.E.O.