Sesame Street Classics: I Don't Want to Live on the Moon

Written by Jeff Moss -- who also penned "Rubber Duckie" and "The People in Your Neighborhood" -- this pensive Sesame Street song features Ernie dreaming of visiting far-off destinations before deciding that homesickness will always bring him back to the people and places he's known all his life. Although this song features similar themes of wanderlust to those explored in "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday," there's an additional subtext here suggesting that venturing out on your own is ultimately a bad thing. No wonder so many twenty/thirtysomethings seem unwilling to start their adult lives, Ernie has brainwashed them into states of arrested development. And they say Bert's the evil one.

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