"Postcard From Planet Earth" lyrics - SKYCLAD

Sorry it has been so long since you received my last transmission
Meanwhile I've studied them, learned about their strange condition
Now I think I understand why they live in such confusion
Sadly they'll never change, I have come to this conclusion

Planet Earth is great to visit
Great to visit but you wouldn't want to live there

I am the mariner who navigated seas celestial
Astronaut-ambassador sent to foreign shores terrestrial
Now with hindsight I admit I don't admire the humans' lot
Frail bodies, fragile, ill-equipped, their lives are hard but they are not

Planet Earth is great to visit
It's great to visit but you wouldn't want to live there

And when you know the ways of men
Then you can only pity them
Every day a raging storm
Castaway in a carbon-based life form

I've wandered far, I've wondered hard and have one source of comfort only
When I share my thoughts with you, mortality is not so lonely
Countless starts between us, myriad the things I miss
I say farewell and think of home, the static drowns my parting kiss now

Planet Earth is great to visit
It's great to visit but you wouldn't want to live there

And as your signal slowly wanes
The fears return my growing pains
Here it is for what it's worth
Yet another postcard from planet Earth.

Now with hindsight I admit I don't admire the humans' lot
Frail bodies, fragile, ill-equipped, their lives are hard but they are not

Planet Earth is great to visit
It's great to visit but you wouldn't want to live there

And when you know the ways of men
Then you can only pity them
Every day a raging storm
Castaway in a carbon-based life form

Planet Earth is great to visit
It's great to visit but you wouldn't want to live there