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!