# Komarov | Unknower

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Song

# Komarov

![Official cover artwork for Sea / Soil / Sky](https://unknowermusic.com/images/releases/sea-soil-sky/sea-soil-sky-cover.jpg)

From [Sea / Soil / Sky](https://unknowermusic.com/releases/sea-soil-sky) · Track 3 · 2022

A concept song centered on Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov and a doomed space mission.

5:08releasedConfidence: mixed

Lyrics · artist-supplied

Can we be sure that this will work  
Or will I come crashing to Earth?

I know if I don't go  
My comrade will take on the role  
Oh

So send me  
So send me all alone  
So send me up  
So send me up all alone  
Oh

I'm all alone

Set your radio  
So you hear me coming back to you  
(Can you set your radio?)

Set your radio  
So you hear me coming back to you  
(Can you set your radio?)

Set your radio  
So you hear me coming back to you  
(Because this is on you)

You know the truth  
'Cause this is on you  
Yeah this is on you

Pushing buttons and pulling bars  
It's going to fast  
And ground's not too far

I can't believe you'd set me off on this suicide launch

Shields are heating up  
Are systems fine, Komarov? (Our system's fine, Komarov.)  
Did my chutes deploy  
Bet they ripped right off

Parts are breaking off  
This ship is just a bomb  
A disgrace  
Everything I touch goes to waste

Earth is coming up fast  
Don't know how long I have left  
Or if I will last

Earth is coming up fast  
And this will be my last demand

Set your radio  
So you hear me coming back to you  
(Can you set your radio?)

Set your radio  
So you hear me coming back to you  
(Can you set your radio?)

Set your radio  
So you hear me coming back to you  
(Because this is on you)

Because this is on you

Working interpretation · analysis

> **Interpretation note:** This section is analysis/inference, not an authoritative statement of authorial intent unless the Artist Context above says otherwise.

The song's historical frame makes the abstract Unknower question of agency versus inevitability brutally concrete. A person enters a system he knows may fail; loyalty, duty, coercion, friendship, and institutional responsibility become difficult to separate. The spacecraft is therefore both literal machinery and a moral machine: once the mission is in motion, individual choices exist inside a narrowing corridor of possible outcomes. As the “Sky” movement of the release, it also pushes the trilogy from natural danger into human-made danger.

Themes

spaceflight, history, sacrifice, fatalism, technological failure, responsibility

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