When I was small I wanted to travel
Above the world like an astronaut
Imagined myself in zero gravity
Catching water in bubbles
When I got big I still wanted to travel
Above the world like an astronaut
So I studied and studied, I worked and I studied
Until I got the call
It was my time to be
An ambassador for my country and family
And science and art
And all of humanity
Now here I am I'm learning and turning
Above the world, I'm an astronaut
Soon I'll be home after
So many night and days in orbit
At the edge of amazing
The oceans are shining, auroras are dancing
I speak to the children back home in their classroom
Knowledge evolving, the blue earth revolving below me
And I tell them
When I was small I wanted to travel
Above the world like an astronaut
Pictured myself in a spacesuit
Weightless, walking in giant steps
Next may be your time to be
The ambassadors for your country and family
And science and art
And all of humanity
Next will be your turn to see
How the clouds form from up above
All of the action on this little planet we love
Like an astronaut
Like an astronaut