Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1] [Verse 1] Joe woke up on a Tuesday with the red sand in his shoes
Left a woman and a mortgage and a job he couldn't lose
Bought a rocket off a scrapyard man who swore it used to fly
Kissed his mother on the forehead and he never said goodbye
[Pre-Chorus] And the launch pad hummed like a wasp in a jar
He said this town's too small for the size of my heart
[Chorus] Joe the Space Traveler, riding out alone
Past the rings of Saturn where the radio goes home
Joe the Space Traveler, ain't coming back tonight
He's gonna find a planet where the sun don't quit so bright
[Post-Chorus] Go Joe, go Joe
(Go Joe, go Joe)
Go Joe, go Joe
(Go Joe, go Joe)
[Verse 2] Six months out he quit the news and grew himself a beard
Talked to nothing but the dashboard and the things he used to fear
A little voice said turn around, the woman's still awake
He turned the dial up louder till the speakers had to break
[Pre-Chorus] And the void out there don't judge a man for running
It just stretches out forever like a road that's always coming
[Chorus] Joe the Space Traveler, riding out alone
Past the rings of Saturn where the radio goes home
Joe the Space Traveler, ain't coming back tonight
He's gonna find a planet where the sun don't quit so bright
[Post-Chorus] Go Joe, go Joe
(Go Joe, go Joe)
Go Joe, go Joe
(Go Joe, go Joe)
[Bridge] (Got a message from the ground)
Tell her that I'm fine
(Tell her that I'm fine)
(There's a woman on the line)
Tell her I ain't coming
(Tell her I ain't coming)
(She should move along)
She should move along
[Break] Ah-ah-ah
(Ah-ah-ah)
Ah-ah-ah
(Ah-ah-ah)
Said the stars don't owe me nothing
(Ah-ah-ah)
Said the stars don't owe me nothing
(Ah-ah-ah)
[Verse 3] Ten years gone he found a rock with water and a moon
Built a shack out of the wreckage, planted something that could bloom
Wrote a letter to the woman, never sent it, threw it down
Watched it drift across the valley like a feather through the town
[Pre-Chorus] And the sky there turned a color that no human ever named
And he laughed until he cried because he knew he'd never change
[Chorus] Joe the Space Traveler, riding out alone
Past the rings of Saturn where the radio goes home
Joe the Space Traveler, ain't coming back tonight
He's gonna find a planet where the sun don't quit so bright
[Post-Chorus] Go Joe, go Joe
(Go Joe, go Joe)
Go Joe, go Joe
(Go Joe, go Joe)
[Outro] Joe the Space Traveler
(Joe the Space Traveler)
Joe the Space Traveler
(Joe the Space Traveler)
Where the sun don't quit so