Space Pigeons

words and music by Howard Ashby Kranz D A Bm E G A D

D A Bm

1. Somewhere in the depths of space a friendly world

E E7 A A7

spins round a cobalt star, and beings with pointy ears

D F# Bm

know everything that we don’t know about ourselves:

D A

how things begin and end, and about what life means.

G D A G D A

Chorus: Send me a starship, God; Send me a starship, God;

G A G D

Send me a starship, God; I’m searching for my soul.

D A Bm

2. Somewhere past the reaches of the newest frontier

E E7 A A7

live beings of different hues, like us but not the same.

D F# Bm

Maybe they can teach us how to get along,

D A

how to use all our brains and to know how to die.

Chorus

Bm A

Bridge: When you reach the implacable void at the heart of the black hole,

G D

it implodes on itself and it’s there that your journey begins.

Bm F#

If you steer past the demons and through the bewildering light-storm,

G A

then it tunnels back selfward and that’s when you’re gonna need friends.

D A Bm

3. There’s a real delicious pellet that appears

E E7 A A7

if you just peck this key often and hard enough.

D F# Bm

Maybe if we peck at the right frequency,

D A

and find the just-right touch, they’ll let us fly away.

Chorus