"Space Weather Hazard Report"
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "Solar Flare" by Sam Baardman

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There's a voice 'cross the wireless, it's tuneless and tireless:
You'd better batten down out there.
I can hear myself saying it, without really weighing it;
It's good to know when to beware.

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	There's a spaceship just outside my window
	Hanging in the afterglow of a solar flare,
	And their systems weren't shielded -- only heaven knows why --
	EMP knocked 'em out and they're dead in the sky

Every spacer remembers how we all used to dream
Made our wishes on shooting stars;
But that one now was a paint chip that flaked off someone's spaceship
And it's liable to punch a hole in yours!

	There's a comet just outside my window
	Leaving a trail of dust a million miles long
	And if you don't want that dust on your clean solar cells
	You'll punch in a new course and avoid it like hell

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		You know, space can be empty as emptiness
		And space can be deadly as anyone's guess
		When all is prediction and pattern
		Sometimes your ship stalls, and sometimes it splatters

May you always find safety as you travel through space,
By the light of stars, moon, and sun;
And watch out for debris from that crash in '63
Along the transfer from L4 to L1.

	The whole system's right outside my window
	And we're tracking each speck of dust and each ion trail
	From the moment you launch until the moment you land
	Your space weather report will always be on this band