Johannes Schult

This is another song about the moon. I decided to not submit it for the Song Fu #2 competition (see previous post), because at the end of the day it is merely a weak imitation of Jonathan Coulton. I really like the intro melody (originally from a tune called “Last Night I Was the Happiest Man on Earth”) and the story starts out in a nice way. But I was stuck for a couple of days and abandoned this song, eventually. I recorded it, anyway, together with the other song, “The Moon Is Made of Cheese”. First came the rhythm track and a whole bunch of keyboards. On the next day, I recorded some acoustic guitars and the vocals. I lacked the middle-eight lyrics, so I had to make them up on the spot. And I still don’t know how to spell the protagonist’s name properly.

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His name was Nicolaew
His friends just called him Nick
His boss said, boy, you’re gonna get far

And he put him into a space ship
And when the countdown began
Everybody had tears in their eyes

His mission was important
His body bent like a spoon
His destination was the moon

And the earth outside his window looks to small
And the stars, they shine like silver in the night
And he knows his journey will be over soon
Then Nicolaew’s gonna be the first monkey on the moon

His vessel hit the surface
His engine died for good
His crew on earth did what they could

And the earth outside his window looks to small
And the stars, they shine like silver in the night
And he knows his mission will be over soon
And late at night he’s dreaming of the first monkey on the moon

And on the seventh day he ran out of food
And a little later it got colder in his room
Nicolaew looked around
But there were no bananas
No bananas on the moon

And as he ran out of water
He heard a knock on the door
The rescue mission from the planet of apes had come to take him back home

(words and music by Johannes Schult)