Now if you're gonna play your games with me
Like a leaf in the the top of the tree
You better watch your step when you're coming back down
From the city on out to the sea
And if your brothers come after me
With their horses so wild and so free
I'll be waiting at the gate in a terrible state
With the man who holds the key
And he'll treat you quite carelessly
For he knows my face from a previous place
From a country in a foreign land
Throwing dice in a game of chance on the sand
But I lost my cool, and fate loves a fool
Now I'm standing on the edge of the past
In my spacesuit hoping that this woman will call me at last
'Cause I'm an astronaut on the shores of this grand illusion
And I'm falling down at the sound of this beating heart
Yeah, this beating heart
Yeah, this beating heart
Bridge: E,D,A A,G,E
Your friends all tell you that you gotta make a change
Gotta make this break in so many kind of ways
The sky to the trees, from the trees to the earth'
From the earth to your grave, from the grave to your birth
Your heart's been heavy with the silver and the gold
But the gold ain't yours 'cause his heart's been sold
For to pay your lover's way
And the ship it sails today E
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by
Got my children to light the way
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by
Got my brothers to light the way
Oh my, my now we're rollin' by and by
Got my sisters to light the way
You gotta pay your lover's way
And the ship it sails today
So if you're gonna play your games with me
Better use some real trickery
You better get smart 'cause that lock on your heart
It ain't as heavy as it used to be
In a land without no gravity
In this windless place, on the edge of space
Where the saints and the sinners have passed
With the dead satellites and the trash
In my spacesuit hoping that this woman will call me at last
'Cause I'm an astronaut on the shores of this grand illusion
And I'm falling down at the sound of this beating heart
Yeah, this beating heart
Yeah, this beating heart