Laika

from Dog Songs by Manuka Piglet

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there is a will
there is a way
there is a dog i'm dreaming of
her name is laika from the u.s.s.s.r.

they tried to take her
and deface her
and place her on a rocket ship
that blasts off far from pluto, saturn, earth, and even mars
but when i saw the cosmonauts they weren't sure what else that they could do
and when at last i heard you died i know a tiny chunk of me did too

and in november 57
laika launched into the heaven
and we knew she'd never come back to the ground where she was bred in
and the shuttle started heating
there was no air left to breath in
and poor laika died away without a sound but her heart beating
like a drum
how fun
and now we'll never hear it
like the skeleton of a dog who flies through space until she's eaten by some aliens in the sky who don't know anything about me either

la la la

when i saw the rockets fly i wasn't sure what else that i could say
and if at last you hadn't died this song would never have been sung today

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from Dog Songs, released January 10, 2014

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Manuka Piglet Albuquerque, New Mexico

folk pop band from albuquerque consisting of sam roberts, calvary fisher, ian carrillo and andy herman

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