Fire in the Sky - A Space Age Song

THIS IS NOT MY SONG, it is by Kristoph Klover    • Fire in the Sky   Different from my usual content but oh well Lyrics: Prometheus, they say, brought God's fire down to man And we've caught it, tamed it, trained it since our history began Now we're going back to Heaven, just to look Him in the eye And there's a thunder cross the land, and a fire in the sky Gagarin was the first back in 1961 When like Icarus, undaunted, he climbed to reach the Sun And he knew he might not make it, for it's never hard to die But he lifted off the pad, and rode a fire in the sky Yet a higher goal was calling and we vowed to reach it soon And we gave ourselves a decade, to put fire on the Moon And Apollo told the world we can do it if we try And there was one small step, and a fire in the sky I dreamed last night Of a little boy's first spaceflight Turned into me, watching a black and white TV There was a fire in the sky I'll remember until I die A fire in the sky A fire in the sky! Then two decades from Gagarin, twenty years to the day Came a shuttle named Columbia to open up the way And they said she's just a truck, but she's a truck that's aiming high See her big jets burning, see her fire in the sky Yet the gods do not give lightly of these powers they have made And with Challenger and seven, once again the price is paid Though a nation watched her falling Yet a world could only cry As they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the sky Now the rest is up to us, there's a future to be won We must turn our faces outward We will do what must be done For no cradle lasts forever, every bird must learn to fly And we're going to the stars, see our fire in the sky Yes we're going to the stars See our fire in the sky Yes I'll remember until I die A fire in the sky A fire in the sky!