She packed my bags last night pre-flight… Shi pakd ma’ bags las’ nai’ pri-flai’t
Zero hour nine a.m… Zirro awuer nain ei. em.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then… Ena’m gona bi jai’ as a kait bay tden
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife… A’ miss di ertd so match a’ miss ma’ wuaif
It’s lonely out in space… Its lonly aut in espeis
On such a timeless flight… On satch a taimless flai’t

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time… En’ a’ tdink its gona bi a lon’ lon’ taim
Till touch down brings me round again to find… Til toch daun brings mi raun’ aguen tu fain’
I’m not the man they think I am at home… A’m nat de man dey tdink ay am at jom
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man… Oh no no no a’m a roket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone… Roket man berninao ‘is fius ap jeer alon’

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time… En’ a’ tdink its gona bi a lon’ lon’ taim
Till touch down brings me round again to find… Til toch daun brings mi raun’ aguen tu fain’
I’m not the man they think I am at home… A’m nat de man dey tdink ay am at jom
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man… Oh no no no a’m a roket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone… Roket man berninao ‘is fius ap jeer alon’
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids… Mars ein’ de kain’ of pleis tu reis yior kids
In fact it’s cold as hell… In fact its coul’ as jel
And there’s no one there to raise them if you did… En’ deers no wuan der tu reis dem if yiu did
And all this science I don’t understand… En’ ol dis sayiens a’ don’ anderstan’
It’s just my job five days a week… Its yios’ ma’ yiob faif deys a wuiik
A rocket man, a rocket man… A roket man, a roket man
And I think it’s gonna be a long long time… En’ a’ tdink its gona bi a lon’ lon’ taim
Till touch down brings me round again to find… Til toch daun brings mi raun’ aguen tu fain’
I’m not the man they think I am at home… A’m nat de man dey tdink ay am at jom
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man… Oh no no no a’m a roket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone… Roket man berninao ‘is fius ap jeer alon’

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time… En’ a’ tdink its gona bi a lon’ lon’ taim
Till touch down brings me round again to find… Til toch daun brings mi raun’ aguen tu fain’
I’m not the man they think I am at home… A’m nat de man dey tdink ay am at jom
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man… Oh no no no a’m a roket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone… Roket man berninao ‘is fius ap jeer alon’

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time… En’ ay tdink its gona bi a lon’ lon’ taim

Writer(s): Elton John, Bernie Taupin, Bernard J. P. Taupin
Copyright: Dick James Music Ltd., Universal/Dick James Music Ltd.