You Pretend to be of the Moon (Future Bible Heroes)

Language: French

This wound up being pretty close to the original, which original song probably doesn't count as "pop" but is nevertheless a personal favorite, and since nobody reads this blog anyway I figure I can do what I like with it.

I read that one of the later Apollo missions to the Moon collected pieces of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had landed on the Moon two and a half years previously, to bring back to Earth and examine for signs of wear from conditions on the Moon. The book in question¹ declined to say whether there were changes or not, but I'm guessing they probably found something. The Moon is a pretty extreme place.

Whether it's as emotionally manipulative as it's depicted in the song, I have no idea.

-Jessi

¹Astrobiology, by Kevin W. Plaxco and Michael Gross, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006, p. 193.
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You pretend to be the moon,
far – infinitely far,
and you'll always leave soon,
but what you want, you won't ever say.

You pretend to be the moon,
looking downwards on us all,
always having a bad opinion,
cold, blue-feeling, and small.

You saw that your friends die in love, and
the weepy ends, but you don't cry.
You recall when we would undulate goodbye?
At least I tested.

You pretend to be the moon,
with another secret face,
only passing through, always,
because you come from the outer spaces.

You pretend to be the moon,
large old man and of the stone facts,
but I saw that in nudity, you
thought you were alone.

You saw that your friends die in love, and
the weepy ends, but you don't cry
You recall when we would undulate goodbye?
At least I tested.