We Are Barbara

Moon Trip LYRICS

Moon Trip by wearebarbara

MoonTrip
girl, you’ve never been to the moon
let’s bring boots and jump the cracks
forget about the world for awhile
let’s dance on that death rock
fortune’s stone
that scraped our planet’s bone
pulled the tide, brought the shore to life

boy, we’ve been pounding on this cage
we scream from its mountaintops we kick its sea in rage
we seek the stair to this lunar reverie
and snap our photo with our phones for the memory
we must be numb from a sleight of sensitivity
we turn our eyes to the skies

the sun went down cast its crown in the gloom as we held our breath in the crowded room
(we’ve been traveling down this road all alone, all alone)

we push through the gravity well
traverse space & time dissolve all the lines break the shell
we see the earthrise to its own demise
distance aches free return still we miss the sky
let’s make our way back home

like the tide at its ebb, we were drawn
once we broke to dead air, it felt so alone
our night gazes fell on that marble room
and now we’re back and we miss missing our celestial tomb
will we ever learn to be satisfied

we’ve been traveling down the road now we’re home
and all i have is a photo

we’ve been traveling down the road now we’re home
and all i have is a photo

you’ve been traveling down the road and all i know all i know
is that i only got a photo

you’ve been traveling all alone down that road
and all I have is a photo
all I have is a photo

all i have

I don’t know if I can write about this song! Its journey seems tragic now. It took months to write, but started out with coorsweisers and a logic file titled frankisdrunk. It was amazing, Frank sent us away while he worked. By the next day I was working on a second verse, asking Derek if he meant for it to be a rebuttal to his initial verse - a duet!!

Then we needed a chorus forever. Each of the four of us gave it a shot at one time or another. I couldn’t get past the JayZ “i wanna make love on the moon” melody. Frank overruled. I thought we’d lose the song, but Lucy liked it. Lucy saved this song for me.

-Betsy
Barbara