escape pod

There was confusion and there were flames I had always felt the fire call my name But this was different, I could taste the fear And the sweet release at the end of all drew near I will never understand why, why They shot me off a dying planet in a tin-sized escape pod There was room only for a bed and porthole that I watched my home explode from The com-link's open, but there's no one tuned in on the other side Why did I deserve to live? Did I just deserve to watch them die? Oh, why did I? Oh, why did I? In those first hours, no one heard me Scream at the hateful, cold eternity And I have been floating ever since then With nobody but the darkness as my friend And if they had asked me, I wouldn't have agreed That it was the right thing when they Shot me off a dying planet in a tin-sized escape pod There was room only for a bed and porthole that I watched my home explode from The com-link's open, but there's no one tuned in on the other side Why did I deserve to live? Did I just deserve to watch them die? Oh, why did I? They shot me off a dying planet in a tin-sized escape pod