Rocket's Tail (For Rocket)

That November night
 Looking up into the sky
 You said, "Hey, wish that was me up there
 It's the biggest rocket I could find
 And it's holding the night in its arms
 If only for a moment.
 I can't see the look in its eyes
 But I'm sure it must be laughing"
 But it seemed to me the saddest thing I'd ever seen
 And I thought you were crazy wishing such a thing
 I saw only a stick on the fire
 Alone on its journey
 Home to the quickening ground
 With no one there to catch it
 I put on my pointed hat and my black and silver suit
 And I check my gunpowder pack
 And I strap the stick on my back
 And dressed as a rocket on Waterloo bridge
 Nobody seems to see me
 Then with a fuse in my hand
 And now shooting into the night
 And still as a rocket I land in the river...
 Was it me who said you were crazy?
 I put on my cloudiest suit
 Size five lightning boots too
 'Cause I am a rocket
 On fire
 Look at me go with my tail on fire
 My tail on fire, look at me...
 On fire