One of the most difficult challenges I faced as a cosmonaut

Was to become completely bilingual

A requirement made necessary by the fact that we’d bought

Several craft components from engineers in America

And so if we needed ever to communicate or signal

A fault or some other such esoterica

Then it would be necessary to use fluent English –

The language used in these crazy lyrics

Far more far out than anything we’ve learned about out here –

Just two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year

And it’s true – I wish you were here,

Ticking away the hours that make up a dull day,

Floating around our milky way –

But you know honey, why I did it,

You know – money, it’s a hit…

And you know when I come cold and tired

It’s good to warm my bones beside the fire

For I have become comfortably numb

All the way out here, in this space hub.