Hugh Blumenfeld Shoot the Moon written by Hugh Blumenfeld
Hugh Blumenfeld vocals/acoustic guitar
Mark Dann bass/vocals/drums/electric guitar
Shane Shanahan percussion
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When I was young all I wanted was the moon
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Hung that National Geographic map in my room
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In seventh grade, Mythology 101
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They called me Little Endymion
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You remember me now
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Space was the object of all my country's desire
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And the skies of my childhood were laced with launching pad fire
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And I was the boy who stood under a streetlamp at night
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Waiting for those strange blue lights
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To come take me away
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Shoot the moon
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Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity
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Just the stars and me
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Shoot the moon
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Give me a home in the 21st century
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A little less gravity
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I could fall free
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Shoot the moon
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If I'd been ten years older, I might have been tripping on Yasgur's
farm
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But I probably would have been a Phantom flying over Viet Nam
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In a dream of altitudes where blue turns black
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And never looking back
At the pieces on the ground
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But I saw the choppers rise out of Saigon's fall
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And my fingers traced the writing on the long black wall
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And I knew there'd be no spaceships in my future
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I guess I was born a little late, or way too soon.
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Shoot the moon
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Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity
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Just the stars and me
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Shoot the moon
A
Give me a home in the 21st century
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A little less gravity
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We could fall free
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Shoot the moon
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Well, a quarter of a million miles isn't really that far
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It took me two Chevys, but I've done it in a car
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Driving from town to town with this old guitar
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Built in 1969
One small step for mankind
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Shoot the moon
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Set me down in the Sea of Tranquillity
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Just the stars and me
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Shoot the moon
A
Give me a home in the 21st century
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A little less gravity
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It is my destiny
From Hygh Blumenfeld "Rocket Science"
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