Beaming Through the Stratosphere

Verse 1

July twenty-third, nineteen-sixty-two

The London fog is lifting, the evening sky is blue

Families gather 'round the box, the cathode tube glows bright

Waiting for a miracle to pierce the British night

Far above the atmosphere, spinning in the dark

A little sphere of silver steel is throwing off a spark

Chorus

Telstar! Beaming through the stratosphere. Telstar!

Bringing the tomorrow here

Across the deep Atlantic, flying over space and time

From the New York harbor straight to Big Ben's chime

Verse 2

The engineers at Goonhilly are dialling in the line

Catching static frequencies, tracing the design

Suddenly the static clears, the signal flashes through

A flickering American world, shimmering and new

The Statue of Liberty, the neon drugstore sign

Flashing down to London town, crossing the ocean line

[Chorus)

Telstar! Beaming through the stratosphere. Telstar!

Bringing the tomorrow here

Across the deep Atlantic, flying over space and time

From the New York harbor straight to Big Ben's chime

Bridge

Joe Meek is in his Holloway room, capturing the sound

Stamping on the floorboards, spinning reels around

He hears the future ringing in a piercing organ strain

The sound of satellites above the London rain!

Verse 3

The three-minute window closes, the bird has flown away

But London's changed forever on this historic day

The world just got a little smaller, the future's arrived

The space-age pop explosion has officially gone live

Chorus

Telstar! Beaming through the stratosphere. Telstar!

Bringing the tomorrow here

Across the deep Atlantic, flying over space and time

From the New York harbor straight to Big Ben's chime

Outro

Beaming down to London...

The world is tuned in...