Recovering the Satellites


Gonna get back to basics
Guess i'll start it up again
I'm fallin' from the ceiling
You're falling from the sky now and then

Maybe you were shot down in pieces
Maybe I slipped in between
But we were gonna be the wildest people
they ever hoped to see
Just you and me

So why'd you come home to this sleepless town
It's a lifetime commitment
Recovering the Satellites
And all anybody really wants to know is...
when you gonna come down

Your mother recognizes all your desperate displays
and she watches as her babies drift violently away
'till they see themselves in telescopes
Do you see yourself in me?
We're such crazy babies, little monkey
We're so fucked up, you and me

So why'd you come home to this faithless town
Where we make a lifetime commitment
to recovering the Satellites
and all anybody really wants to know is...
when are you gonna come down

She sees shooting stars and coment tails
She's got heaven in her eyes
She's says I don't need to be an angel
But I'm nothing if I'm not this high

But we only stay in orbit
For a moment of time
And then you're everybody's satellite
I wish that you were mine

So why'd you come home to this angel's town
Well it's a lifetime decision
Recovering the Satellites
and all anybody really knows for sure is...
that you're gonna come down

Words and music by Adam F. Duritz

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