Saw a Satellite - Planet P Project, Tony Carey

When I was a kid in 1957

I stood out with my father 'neath the california sky

He said 'look what they did', pointed to the heavens

'Wait just a moment, see the future go by'

He said 'there goes the last chance to hide —

Don’t leave your lights on

Let every man stand and decide

Whose side he’ll be on'

And I saw a satellite

Watched it fly by

Saw everything change tonight

From a hundred miles high

I went off to school, along with the others

To learn how to think the american way

They shot down the man, shot down his brother

And good doctor king he met jimmy earl ray

There go the last alibis

Gone on the breeze

Gone with the comfortable lies

We loved to believe

And I saw a satellite

I watched it fly by

Saw everything change tonight

From a hundred miles high

And the lights in the sky

To my ten-year-old eyes

Were like whispers, smoke, maybe dreams

Nikita pounded with his shoe

Saying 'we'll bury you'

And the whispers all rose into screams

And the ratings went over the moon

On the day Laika died

But my mother just stayed in her room

All morning and she cried

And I saw a satellite…