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Once I Was An Astronaut

from What It Is, Too by Andrew Newton

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A late add to the album, this is a bombastic little ditty about having a lot of promise but never getting anywhere. It was always fun opening a set with this tune, and it seems appropriate to start the CD with it.

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Once I was an astronaut, a tribute to the sky.
A foreign football halfback with a diamond in my eye.
But now I'm flying nowhere, and my team has gotten high.

Once I was a fisherman, a farmer of the sea.
A European monarch on the verge of sanity.
But now the sea runs empty, and the world's forgotten me.

It's calling, yeah, it's calling.
I'm everything.
But I don't need anything.

First, I was a poet, and I wrote in verse and prose.
The victim of a witch hunt with the stains upon my clothes.
But now the those words say nothing, and I guess that's how it goes.

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from What It Is, Too, released June 6, 2012

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Andrew Newton Halifax, Nova Scotia

Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist.
Blending rock, folk, progressive rock, funk, and musical theatre.
Currently based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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