Lambda Miner Edwin

But today is not that day. I have lots of exams to mark this week so obviously I've been doing anything but that. For example, yesterday I did some mucking about on my ukulele and came up with this. It's just a demo but I quite like how it's turned out so I thought I'd share (I always say that when a song is a day old though).

It's called "One Day" and shares my hope that one day we'll go back to the Moon, and maybe even retrieve and investigate some of the tat the Apollo crews left there. I suppose nobody told them to "Take only photographs and leave only footprints" :).



Lyrics:

The dust has settled now for many years
Humankind has shed a billion tears
Perhaps the flag is standing but the colours fade away
As it waits for us to go back there one day

Take pictures, leave your footprints when you go
Undisturbed by any wind or rain or snow
Footsteps in the sand dunes that will never be retraced
Unless somebody goes back there one day

One small step remains
We leave as we came
Footsteps in the sand dunes that will never be retraced
Unless somebody goes back there one day
Unless somebody goes back there one day

A statue lies forgotten in the rocks
In memory of former comrades lost
The rovers stand abandoned, blending in the lunar grey
Until the driver goes back there one day

Features made by asteroids long gone
A hammer and a feather land as one
A golf ball's in a crater but there's no-one left to play
At least until we go back there one day

One small step remains
We leave as we came
A golf ball's in a crater but there's no-one left to play
At least until we go back there one day
At least until we go back there one day

All that's left are these fading dreams and ghosts
But God willing we'll return with peace and hope
Tranquility is clinging to mementos of our stay
And wishing that we'd go back there one day

One small step remains
We leave as we came
Tranquility is clinging to mementos of our stay
And wishing that we'd go back there one day
Wishing that we'd go back there one day