Triton

[Intro] Everything here goes forward Except me [Verse 1] Every moon of any size goes one way The way its planet turns I go the other, so they know I wasn't born here, I was learned A Kuiper wanderer passing by And Neptune's hand closed on my arm Billions of years of falling since And the falling does no harm, not yet, no harm [Chorus] The wrong way round, the wrong way round A stolen moon in a borrowed sky One day the tide will pull me down And I'll become a ring before I die [Verse 2] Minus two thirty-five upon my face Among the coldest ever read And still there's something moving underneath Nitrogen geysers overhead Voyager caught them in eighty-nine Dark plumes eight kilometres high A cantaloupe of cracked and frozen ground Beneath a thin and pink-lit sky [Bridge] Ten million years, or a hundred more The numbers hardly matter now The system pulls its children in And I am falling, and I don't know how to stop, or how [Final Chorus] The wrong way round, the wrong way round A stolen moon in a borrowed sky One day the tide will pull me down And I'll become a ring before I die [Outro] Everything here goes forward Except me