Late tonight as we walk outside,
You take my hand, you point
To a dot in the sky.
"Telstar at midnight,
Tell us where we might go
To leave behind our fears,
To do without the tears."

You and I, from the distant light,
We get an answer back
From that dim satellite.
"Beyond the sunlight,
Into the deep night—
When the earth has ceased to be
You'll fly alone with me."

We don't fit in this time, in this place.
We are home among the stars;
We belong out in space.
We were born to a far century,
When the future we have dreamt
Will have all come to be.

We won't know if this small world goes to war,
If their oceans dry,
If they kill all their poor.
Hunger and famine
won't find their way into
Our dream about the sky:
The new sun where we die.

We won't know if this one goes the hell.
When we're fifty miles above
It will be hard to tell.

Far beyond the Telstar and the Earth,
We'll start to love again;
We'll give new ones birth.
Someday we'll be there;
Someday we will share
All the loneliness of space,
Together in one place.
That's where we should be
I know I could see
High up where the world looks blue
I'll fly alone / with you.

Enright/Meek (lyrics 1981)