The Stars Look Down - Hoodoo Gurus

I made a paper plane

And threw it into space

It seemed to float forever

No telling where it went

Snatched by a sudden breeze

It sails the wide, blue yonder

I know my aeroplane

Fell back to earth again

But I pretend

It never

One moonless, summer night

We’ll lie back counting stars

Like diamonds on black velvet

We’ll see the satellites

Fly past the southern cross

And laugh as they observe us

Somewhere a river flows

And whispers in the dark

A story near-eternal

It speaks of mountain rain

Valleys and open plain

And hungers for

The ocean

I don’t wanna die

Tonight, the setting sun

Blood-stained this ragged day

And left our hopes in tatters

But then the twilight came

And covered up our shame

Without a trace of pity

Always the stars look down

The heavens never care

They only watch, unblinking

I don’t wanna die

I made a paper plane

And threw it into space