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The Observatory

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	1.	Rain and Snow 05:42
	2.	The Blast Off Song 03:46
	3.	The Observatory Part I: The Observatory 03:35
	4.	The Observatory Part 0: Counting Stars 03:46
	5.	Space Travel is Such a Drag 03:33
	6.	The Observatory Part 2 (A Cry From Space) 04:07
	7.	The Observatory Part II: A Journal Entry 02:25
	8.	This Space Suit Does Not Suit Me 03:43
	9.	The Observatory Part III: Last Night on Earth 04:18
	10.	The Observatory Part IV: Hillsborough Park 01:23
	11.	After 20 Years of Searching, The Lonely Space Traveler Decides to Try One More Solar System 02:10
	12.	Eight More Chances or the Sun for Me 04:09
	13.	The Observatory Part V: Lifted 06:02
	14.	The Observatory Part VI: Space Journey 02:33
	15.	Home on the Range 05:36

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This album is a space rock opera about a lonely astronomer and a lonely space explorer crossing paths. It's about loneliness, space, long-distance companionship, rapping, and rocking.

Oh, and this just might be a true story.

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released March 1, 2009

All songs written by Tim Denson and Jesse Thompson in the course of 28 days in 2009. Tim wrote a song and then Jesse wrote a song, etc. The two parties were not allowed to discuss the story they could only react to the previous song until the album was complete.

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