Composition Notes

This is about the lunacy of the very rich wanting to make rockets fly in rockets or travel to other planets. Which I find ridiculous but it's part of the endless march of technology that we appear to need in our world.

The melody is the lovely Irish tune "Will You Go Lassie Go" also known as Wild Mountain Thyme. I set it to a dance beat and I think it works. Lots of synths including synth bass. I had a gadget at the time called a Voicelive so that's where all the vocal harmonies come from. The Japanese name came from the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami which I read around that time.

Recorded 2015

Fly baby fly

“hey Toru Watanabe”

V1 We belong to this world

But we’re all in love with rockets

They can take us far away

For the fortune in our pockets

We will fly baby fly!

CH and we all dream together

Of a life in the heavens

Where there’s no sadness and no crying

We will fly baby fly!

V2 we will bring the Harvest Home

From the pods inside the mountains

Though the atmosphere is toxic

We will drink from chocolate fountains

just like nineteen thirty nine

CH and we’ll all dream together ......

V3 We’ve done well we’ve made a pile

now we move to buy the planet

While you all Remote destruct

That’s the way to plan it

On the high Chaparral

CH and we’ll all dream together ......