Titusville Rhapsody

(Sung to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody)


Is this the real launch?
Is this just fantasy?
We've caught a problem
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies, you see
There is no shuttle
I'd like some sympathy
Because it's easy come, easy go
Little high, little low
Any way the wind blows
The shuttle isn't launching for me, for me

Shuttle just got a crack
About nine inches long
And now they must prolong
The launch time. It had just begun
But now they've gone and thrown it all away
Shuttle, oo-oo-oo-oooh
You have made me cry
If I don't see you launch in February
Carry on, carry on
'cause NASA really matters

Too late, the time has gone
Sends sadness through my mind
Letting many tears be shed
Goodbye, Shuttle dearest
I've got to go
Got to leave you all behind and face the plane
Shuttle, oo-oo-oo-oooh, (Anyway the wind blows)
I don't want to go
I sometimes wish I'd never have come at all

[Guitar Solo]

I see a little silhouetto of the pad
Scaramouch, scaramouch, will you launch the Discovery
Six inch cracks and longer, only make it stronger, gee
(Hey there, NASA) Hey there, NASA (Hey there, NASA) Hey there, NASA, light the shuttle's inferno
Figaro-o-o-o
It's just the shuttle, we'll let the launch quit
It's just the shuttle, let NASA admit
The shuttle can't launch because it is unfit

Easy come, easy go, will you let it go?
Blasphemy! No, we will not let it go
Let it go
Blasphemy! No, we will not let it go
Let it go
Blasphemy! No, we will not let it go
Let it go (Will not let it go)
Let it go (Will not let it go) (Never, never, never, never)
Let it go-o-o-o
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia, let it go
The NASA team has the shuttle set aside to launch, to launch, to launch

So you think you can bring me here then cause delay
So you think you can break it so I cannot stay
Oh, NASA, can't do this to me NASA
Just let it launch, just let it launch right offa Earth

[Guitar Solo]
(Oooh yeah, ooh yeah)

Shuttle never took off
Anyone can see
The shuttle never took off
The shuttle never got off of Earth

Any way the wind blows