I.S.S. [Is Somebody Singing] [German translation]

On solid fuel and wires

Turn the key and light the fires

We’re leaving earth today

This rocket’s burning bright

We’ll soon be out of sight

And orbiting in space

Pushed back in my seat

Look out my window

There goes home

That ball of shiny blue

Houses, everybody, anybody ever knew

So sing your song, I’m listening

Out where stars are glistening

I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

If you could see our nation

From the international space station

You’d know why I want to get back soon

Eighteen thousand miles an hour

Fueled by science and solar power

The oceans racing past

At half a thousand tons

Ninety minutes, moon to sun

A bullet can’t go half this fast

Floating from my seat

Look out my window

There goes home

That brilliant ball of blue

Is where I’m from, and also where I’m going to

So sing your song, I’m listening

Out where stars are glistening

I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

If you could see our nation

From the international space station

You’d know why I want to get back soon

All black and white just fades to grey

Where the sun rises sixteen times a day

You can’t make out borders from up here

Just a spinning ball within a tiny atmosphere

Pushed back in my seat

Look out my window

Here comes home

What once was fueled by fear

Now has fifteen nations orbiting together here

So sing your song, I’m listening

Out where stars are glistening

I can hear your voices bouncing off the moon

If you could see our nation

From the international space station

You’d know why I want to get back soon...

• Artist:Chris Hadfield