For r/songaweek Week 19: Lost Dog Laika. This song was inspired by both the Laika prompt and the novel Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis.

Lyrics:

I am the chosen one
My good is greater
Now that I'm blasting off
It hits me like a trailer
The rest of my life...
A million miles from home...

Somebody said it was a suicide mission
I said "I know" it was a lie of omission
I didn't consider there'd be time to regret

I remember my fathers tears
My sister screaming "How you think I feel?" 
And the love of my life stoically turned away
"How could you do it?" "You volunteered?"
Can't you see I want it something fierce
To be greater, well, greater than good

Now I'm homesick as a dog
Laika come pick me up

Plucked from obscurity
They said I'll make the books
Praised my maturity
And offered me free stuff
The rest of my life...
Signed, sealed, delivered...

I was duly warned, I wasn't forced
I made my bed outta zero g thorns
Now everybody's watching on TV

I remember my fathers tears
My sister screaming "How you think I feel?" 
And the love of my life stoically turned away
"How could you do it?" "You volunteered?"
Can't you see I want it something fierce
To be greater, well, greater than good

Now I'm homesick as a dog
Laika come pick me up

Laila pick me up
You're a good girl, you're a great dog
My bones are the new space junk
You can play with them if you want

Greater Good (Laika)

I was trying to be Bon Iver as hard as I could with this one. Idk if I got it, but still made it into something interesting :) 

Lyrics:
I guess I’m sparse
Lost my leaves
5k run 
Father undone
Hope it grows
Under ur toes

I lost my trees
Forest scene
I lost my trees
Forest scene

Let the reeds speak 
Write my name 
In cursive lettering 
Farther, father, farther, father

Missing leaves 
Come back home 
Return to sender
What I tell her?
Come back home
Missing leaves 
Return to sender
What’d I tell her?

Missing Leaves (r/songaweek)

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Greater Good (Laika)

Katherine

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