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Space Shot

Deadly venom, you feeling alright?
You fast forward into the light
Back to the future, we don’t have much time
Flip the switches, let’s go for a ride
Pure psychotic, I’m leaving the ground
I love this city, I live for this town
Going crazy, reading your mind
Out of orbit, we’ll do it tonight

I’m getting out at five and I wanna go
I Want to feel alive

Space shot baby, out of control
We’re out of control, yeah, out of control
Everything that you wanted to know
You wanted to know, you never wanted to know

Sub zero, fifty below
Can’t take the pressure, it’s going to blow
Automatic, get in the flow
Think I’m mutating, just so you know
Check the exit, time to escape
Over Europe, across the states
The world is crazy, who can deny
To the limit, we’ll do it tonight

I’m getting out at five and I wanna go
I Want to feel alive

Space shot baby, out of control
We’re out of control, yeah, out of control
Everything that you wanted to know
You wanted to know, you never wanted to know
Space shot baby, out of control
We’re out of control, yeah, out of control
Everything that you wanted to know
You wanted to know, you don’t want to know

The time is right
We’re doing it tonight
Getting out at five
Getting out alive
Gonna show you what I mean now

Space shot baby, out of control
We’re out of control, yeah, out of control
Everything that you wanted to know
You wanted to know, you never wanted to know
Space shot baby, out of control
We’re out of control, yeah, out of control
Everything that you wanted to know
You wanted to know, you don’t want to know
We’re outta, we’re outta control

Song Notes

“Space Shot” was performed live for the first time at Brighton Concorde 2 in June 2009. The song was also broadcast live by the BBC for Children in Need on 20 November 2009, along with “Shining Light” and “True Love 1980”. Tim said of the writing of the song:

This song started out as a little autoharp riff, then some prophet synth riffs got added and it all developed from there. I bet there aren’t too many autoharp/synth pop songs our there. My favourite line is the one about mutating.