Hitchhikin'

[bnewman]

A song about The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy that strikes a more serious note.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Pale Shamen" by Talis Kimberley

 

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( A5C D / / A5 CD / )

 

/: A5 - / F (G) :/

 

I stand by the window — look out of the starship

I see my reflection, and the empty void

Once I had my own place, now there's only the highway

It's kind of a bummer when your home's destroyed

 

/ A5 - / G D / A5 G / D~ - /

 

When you stuck your thumb out, you were trying to save me

I must be dreaming — you must be crazy

But I'm awake and this is real and I don't know where we're going

Do you know where we're going?

 

/: A5 D A5~ - / - G D~ - :/

 

Oh, with all I've been through

What kind of cosmic joke could contain this pain inside?

What have we got ourselves into?

Hitchhikers trying to hitch a ride

Hitchhikin' the galaxy, wishing we had a guide

 

You pull out this gadget — it's some kind of tablet

It says "Don't Panic" in large, friendly letters

You say it's a guidebook, but how can it guide me?

Do you think it can tell me how to make this better?

 

Earth's "mostly harmless" — I think that's bad press

I've lost my planet!  Should I feel sadness?

There's no way I can go home and I don't know how to feel here

Don't know how to feel here

 

Oh, with all I've been through...

 

This ship will take us, just not the whole distance

We've just been ejected from the cargo hold

Someone else will find us?  I don't think that's likely

Unlikely as a starship with a heart of gold

 

And we'll find a planet where planets are hacked up

They made the Earth there — did they make a backup?

And they say they know the answer but they don't know the question —

I think I might know the question

 

Oh, with all I've been through...