She packed my bags last night preflight, zero hour, nine A. M. And I'm gonna be high ... as a kite by then I miss the earth so much, I miss my wife, It's lonely out in space On such a time ... less flight   And I think it's gonna be a long, long time Till touchdown brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh, no, no, no I'm a Rocket man, Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone    And I think it's gonna be a long, long time Till touchdown brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh, no, no, no I'm a Rocket man, Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone    Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact, it's cold as hell And there's no one there to raise them if you did And all this science, I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week A Rocket man ... Rocket man      And I think it's gonna be a long, long time Till touchdown brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh, no, no, no I'm a Rocket man, Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone    And I think it's gonna be a long, long time Till touchdown brings me round again to find I'm not the man they think I am at home, oh, no, no, no I'm a Rocket man, Rocket man, burning out his fuse up here alone    And I think it's gonna be a long, long time ...