You and I wondered, you and I chose Stars and drones over UFO's He comes in troubled, he says Hello, can you get my books From the basement store? He's been scanning the heavens For those flashes and specks Now I'm prowling the aisles I've got my real hard facts What on earth matters as the darkness grows Look and see the stars, false, fading What on earth matters as the darkness grows Here's hoping I never drift away from you Headlights shimmering on the rainy supreme Kids all lost in backseat dreams I keep my eyes open to count the hanging gleams Could they take us out of here in those flying machines? There was a yearning in my faraway chaser For me to unlearn my jaded behaviour To feel the roar in the beam of a stranger But I just sigh in the lift Down to the basement store What on earth matters as the darkness grows Look and see the stars, false, fading What on earth matters as the darkness grows Here's hoping I never drift away from you