The Sights

Album: The Spark (2017)
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  • Are you staying awake for the liftoff, tonight?
    You'll never believe the sights tonight
    The sights tonight, the sights
    Are you staying awake for the liftoff, tonight?
    You'll never believe the sights tonight
    The sights tonight

    Mr. Magpie
    You got distracted by the gleam of the diamonds, as you flew by
    But their dull glint does not impress
    When there's a billion stars in the sky
    I sit gripping my pen like a breadknife
    As I write, I'm leaving this Earth for the stars tonight
    And now I'm running to board the flight

    Now I'll boldly go
    Into the great unknown
    Unless I'm Jacques Cousteau
    I give you my mind to be blown
    Now I'll boldly go
    Into the great unknown
    Like Marcus Cicero
    Well this life is whole

    I'm searching far and wide to find a planet to orbit
    Far and wide, I wanna scan and explore it
    Far and wide, you're my new planet to orbit
    So fire up the rockets

    Are you staying awake for the liftoff, tonight?
    You'll never believe the sights tonight
    The sights tonight, the sights
    Are you staying awake for the liftoff, tonight?
    You'll never believe the sights tonight
    The sights tonight, the sights

    Now I'll boldly go
    Into the great unknown
    Unless I'm Jacques Cousteau
    I give you my mind to be blown
    Now I'll boldly go
    Into the great unknown
    Like Marcus Cicero
    Well this life is whole

    I'm searching far and wide to find a planet to orbit
    Far and wide, I wanna scan and explore it
    Far and wide, you're my new planet to orbit
    So fire up the rockets

    It's over now and I'm a little bit petrified
    Of what's to come, yeah my head's a bit stir-fried
    It's over now and I'm a little unqualified
    But fire up the rockets

    (I'm searching) far and wide to find a planet to orbit
    Far and wide, I wanna scan and explore it
    Far and wide, you're my new planet to orbit
    So fire up the rockets Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER JOHN BATTEN, LIAM RORY CLEWLOW, ROBERT WILLIAM ROLFE, ROUGHTON LESLIE PAUL REYNOLDS
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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