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Space Cadet

by Mercury Slim

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I wrote this song while living in a Van in LA on a rainy day

The song is very multi faceted and takes on Many roles rather than being about any one thing in particular. I continue to find new meanings as time marches on. Space Cadet about rejecting everything culture and society hands you as what you are supposed to be. As well as rejection of the consumerism and ideology that drives a lot of what’s harming people and the planet we live on. The chorus/ hook is a release from societal expectations. I became a huge Star Trek (particularly TNG) fan after high school and it has shaped how I view the world and what is possible for humanity in a post scarcity society. On another facet, my father and I began working together right after I got out of high school and he drove the company work van. Once I got into Star Trek, which he was already into, it became something we bonded over and we where able to connect in a positive healthy way really for the first time in our lives. He had been gone for half of my childhood battling addiction and was able to overcome what he needed to come back into my families life. We named his work van the NC-17D and it was kind of our ship to drive around and solve mysteries (doing IT work) in.

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I don't wanna be a Doctor
I don’t wanna be a Lawyer
I don’t wanna be a “Working Man”
I don’t wanna be Jesus
I don’t wanna behave
I don’t wanna be a “good consumer”
I don’t wanna be a Slave

I just wanna be a Space Cadet
Just me and my old man
We’ll fly around solving mysteries
Doing the best we can
And then one day when he’s older
Ill get the keys to the ship
And then ill fly it around and around and around
Until the end of the trip

I don’t wanna be a Mad Man
I don’t wanna be sick
I don’t wanna be medicated
I don’t wanna be tricked
And I don’t wanna be Jesus
I don’t wanna be saved
I don’t wanna be a “Good Consumer”
I don’t wanna be a slave

Yeah I just wanna be a Space Cadet
Just me and my old man
We’ll fly around solving mysteries
Doing the best we can
And then one day when he’s older
Ill get the keys to the ship
And then Ill fly it around and around and around
Until the end of the trip

Yeah, I just wanna be a Space Cadet
Yeah, I just wanna be a Space Cadet

Oooooh, but I’m just done here on Earth (Mother)
Looking up at the stars
And I wanna shoot further
Than a man on mars,
And I wanna roll further
Than a rolling stone
And when my death comes knocking
Im gonna be alone

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released June 30, 2021

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