Inspired by the only Afghan cosmonaut, Abdul Ahad Mohmand.
lyrics
You're a seventies child, with your protein pills and your future styles.
Blasting off of the iron curtain
Give one last Jersey smile before you walk down the aisle
From a centre for war production, you've crossed the miles to me
Yuri Gagarin always in a hurry
Laika and Belka and Strelka - adopted history.
Transmission incoming
Space Cadet, stay a while
Don't forget, what you left behind
On the set, come collect
Before you style
Starless and black skies
Starless and black skies
9 days in the piece of peace from the dust to the stars
With your rosary tucked into your arms
Do you think of the ones before you, the eastern cosmonauts
Blasting off from the Afghan heartland, the landlocked Argonauts
Yuri Gagarin always in a hurry
Laika and Belka and Strelka - adopted history.
Transmission incoming
Space Cadet, stay a while
Don't forget, what you left behind
On the set, come collect
Before you style
Starless and black skies
Starless and black skies
Starless and black skies
Starless and black skies
Starless and black skies
Starless and black skies
credits
from Space Cadet,
released July 5, 2012
All songs written and performed in Afghanistan by Beard, Owen and Stefansson
Produced and engineered by Jamal Rahman at True Brew Records, Pakistan
Mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios, UK
Artwork by White City, photography by White City, David Gill, Jake Simkin, Ellie Kealey
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