and the world turns    and the world turns    and the world turns    and the world turns      Elvis sang that    and ever since i've been young    I've had a dream about going into space    lying there in the darkness and staring down    watching continents drift by and come round again    drift by and come round again       I always want to launch myself from space and dive down    through the atmosphere through the clouds and the air    and swoop over the heads of people walking and shopping and talking    in moscow or paris or rome    or wherever      I'd be moving so fast I'd just have time to see their astonished faces    before i was off again    back off to my space base    which could be anything really    an asteroid a moon or a spaceship    it's never been that clearly defined in my dreams       but its not important    just to be in space would be the important thing    just to be in space would be the important thing       and I've spoken to lots of people about my desire to go to space    and they think it's stupid    they say things like    what about the training?    I hear its very hard    I say hard? hard my arse!   a couple of assault courses and a maths test    a piece of piss    I've suffered worse than that    I've suffered much worse than that       sometimes I wonder what's wrong with people    i think they've gone simultaneously soft or stupid    or they're living in fear    but I dunno why    there's nothing to fear about space    space is brilliant    space is brilliant       and I've told people    I'd pay a million pounds to go to space    which is true    I'd pay a million pounds or more to go for an hour    or even half an hour    although a day would be better    a day in space    that would be something    a day in space    that would be something       and I speak to people sometimes    and I ask them    well what would you do if you had a million pounds?    if you wouldn't take it to space what would you do with it?    they say I dunno    buy a house or a car    maybe take a holiday somewhere    "a holiday where?" I ask them    oh spain, egypt    see the pyramids maybe    see the pyramids maybe       when they say this to me I look at them    I look them straight in the eye    and I wait for just a few seconds    just so they know what i'm going to say is going to be important    what I'm going to say is going to be important    and then I say    what better place could you go to than space?    what's a better holiday than that?    think about lying there when your a hundered    a hundred and ten or whatever    looking back on your life and thinking    well what did I actually do    what did I actually achieve    "oh I saw the pyramids"   big deal!    you can apparently see those from space anyway    you can see all the rest of the blue and green globe twisting and turning below you    you can see the sun lighting up the moon    you can feel the stars shining down upon your back       you dont get that in egypt    and you don't get that at the pyramids    and you don't get that by pissing away your million pounds on something    that everyone else can do if they save up long enough       and the world turns    and the world turns    and the world turns    and the world turns    elvis sang that