Biography:
Alex the Astronaut is Australian folktronica singer-songwriter Alex Lynn.
Alex has been described as one of "Australia's most powerful and important songwriters". She released her first two EPs in 2017 - the first: To Whom It May Concern which features the single [single artist=Alex the Astronaut album=To Whom It May Concern]Already Home[/single] and was described by Huffington post as "a melancholy number about a bus ride and ruminations on the mundanities of life" and includes the line "there's billionaires for president
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[Verse 1]
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For my seventh birthday
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I was given a CD player
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And I played Paul Kelly again and again and again
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My dad listened to Coldplay
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But I'd always ask him
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To play Kat Stevens again and again and again
[Chorus]
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Some people believe in a God above
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Who says hello and he sends his love
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And brings to us peace on earth but
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I don't need no winged friends
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Just my guitar and some paper and pens
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That's right my friends
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I believe in music
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[Verse 2]
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I remember on Christmas Eve
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My uncle brought his guitar and he
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Showed me how to play David Bowie's Space Oddity
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I played until my fingers bled
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My mum sent me off to bed
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The next day Santa brought me my own guitar
[Chorus]
Am
Some people believe in a God above
F
Who says hello and he sends his love
G C
And brings to us peace on earth but
Am
I don't need no winged friends
F
Just my guitar and some paper and pens
G
That's right my friends
C
I believe in music
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[Verse 3]
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My grandpa was very sick
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I played his favourite song for him
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Amazing Grace and a piano in the back of a hospital
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Simple chords and a melody
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Made him grin from cheek to cheek
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The next day I cried as I said my goodbyes
[Chorus]
Am
Some people believe in a God above
F
Who says hello and he sends his love
G C
And brings to us peace on earth but
Am
I don't need no winged friends
F
Just my guitar and some paper and pens
G
That's right my friends
C
I believe in music
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