Someone Took the Roof Off

Someone took the roof off and I almost blew away I could have fell forever from where I lay Down past the last light for a good few million miles sister moon is cluttered up but still has a silvery smile Running rings round Saturn and dodging asteroids In the back garden of the earth is there no background noise? I can’t get my head around it spaced out, so far away A hundred million stars are just a drop in the Milky Way Andromeda next door is all history away And still they’re saying nothing unless their voice is deep deeper than the bottom of my heart Have you watched us, glittering, for featureless wastes of time and we are but a tremor like a ripple on a shoreless sea? And should we master all by knowledge from our pea-green boat and hurl our words in silver foil like fizz above a Coke your disdain shall leave us cold and what you know be only told to children.