That November night, looking up into the sky You said, "Hey, wish that was me up there" It's the biggest rocket I could find And it's holding the night in its arms If only for a moment I can't see the look in its eyes But I'm sure it must be laughing But it seemed to me The saddest thing I'd ever seen And I, I thought you were crazy Wishing such a thing I saw only a stick on fire Alone on its journey Home to the quickening ground With no one there to catch it I put on my pointed hat And my black and silver suit And I, I check my gunpowder pack And I strap the stick on my back And dressed as a rocket on Waterloo Bridge Nobody seems to see me Then with the fuse in my hand And now, shooting into the night ♪ And still as a rocket I land in the river Was it me, said you were crazy? ♪ I put on my cloudiest suit ♪ Size five lightning boots, too ♪ 'Cause I am a rocket ♪ On fire Look at me go, with my tail on fire ♪ With my tail on fire ♪ On fire Hey, look at me go, look at me