We're on a spacewalk We ride the soul train
We near the bass talk It's saying nothing
I want to see you I want to feel you
I want to touch you I want to be with you
We're in the basement We're watching baseball
We're getting out of our heads Were we ever in them at all
We take the smart drug So we can think straight
We take the empathy drug And get on great
And in the wintertime It feels like summer time
And in the summertime It feels so strange
We ride the soul train Just like the brothers
We dance to dead men - Marley, Marvin, Otis and many others
We're on a spacewalk We're walking inside
That's where the space is That's where the love died
I want to see you I want to feel you
I want to touch you I want to be with you
Spacewalk was written by Nick Currie.
In the sleeve notes for his 2016 compilation album, “Pubic Intellectual”, Momus said this about the track:
It’s as if Jacques Brel were around in the early nineties, partying half heartedly on the fringes of the rave scene. This is his catalogue of criticisms…It was issued as a single but did very...