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    "Fire in the Sky"genre: Rock
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    A stirring musical history of manned space exploration by Jordin Kare (jtkare@attglobal.net). Track is from the "To Touch the Stars" CD, celebrating our history and future in space exploration. For more information, visit http://www.prometheus-music.com/space.html .
    CD: To Touch the Stars -- A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration   Label: Prometheus Music
    Credits: Song by Jordin Kare (jtkare@attglobal.net), with bridge by Kristoph Klover. Lead Vocals & Keyboard: Kristoph Klover. Bass: John Land. Drums: Curt Moore. Electric Guitar: Mark Ungar. Violin: Shira Kammen

    Story Behind the Song
    Recorded for a joint CD project between the National Space Society and Mars Society, slated for release in summer of 2003.

    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 nineteen sixty-one,
    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 we'd 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.

    (Bridge)
    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 the 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, and 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.

    (Reprise)
    Yes, we're going to the stars, see our fire in the sky!
    There's a fire in the sky, I'll remember until I die.
    A fire in the sky, a fire in the sky!

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