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Major Tom (Coming Home) Lyrics: Standing there alone, the ship is waiting / All systems are go, "Are you sure?" / Control is not convinced, but the computer / Has the evidence, no...
Space Oddity Lyrics: Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major Tom (Eight,...
These aren't the lyrics to a David Bowie song. Those are the lyrics to Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling. The link to listen while you read takes you to the song space oddity by Bowie. Total fail.
Major Tom is viewed as a hero by the folks back on earth - every schoolboy wants to be an astronaut like him and "the papers want to know whose shirt you wear". But he doesn't feel like a hero, just a figurehead (even his spaceship "knows which way to go" without his help.)
The lyrics were somewhat altered; rather than losing communication with Ground Control and being lost in space as a result, Major Tom receives his orders to land and does so safely, reflecting Hadfield's imminent return from his final mission to the ISS.
Space Oddity (1979 Version) Lyrics: Ground Control to Major Tom / Ground Control to Major Tom / Take your protein pills and put your helmet on / (Ten) Ground Control (Nine) to Major Tom...
Major Tom, mentioned in this song, is a fictional character created by David Bowie for this song in 1969. There are sequels about the character: "Ashes to Ashes" and "Hallo Spaceboy". David Bowie was inspired to write this song after seeing Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).
Ground Control to Major Tom. Commencing countdown, engines on. Check ignition and may God's love be with you. Spoken: Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Lift-off. This is Ground Control to Major Tom. You've really made the grade.
Major Tom finds himself floating in space, and all of a sudden, he knows that he was never meant for life on earth. "Planet earth is blue" in both the literal sense and the figurative: it's a sad place.
Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you "Here am I floating 'round my tin can. Far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue. And there's nothing I can do" [ Correct these Lyrics ] Writer: David Bowie.