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Jordin Kare - Wanderer / Fire in the Sky [HQ]

Fire in the Sky track 12. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs. Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_fire... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lyrics: Once I walked an endless land with a wanderer's swinging stride And once upon a mighty steed forever I could ride And once a tall ship rode the tide at midnight from the bay And I could climb aboard her and travel far away Through centuries and lifetimes, no journey twice the same With love or fear to guide me on, seeking death or fame Or hearing just a still, small voice that said “You cannot stay” I could leave the past behind me and travel far away But now the great jets thunder and they sing of distant lands But all their promised wonders turn to dust within my hands For I can travel half the world and return in half a day And I fear that only death remains to take me far away For with steel and steam and gasoline and turbines' whining scream They have trapped me in a nightmare that is someone else's dream Of a world so small and guarded, you could hold it in your hand A world that knows no land called far away So I waste my lives in dreaming or in bloody, useless war But somewhere there's a flash of fire and a mighty rising roar And I pray godspeed to those who ride, and I live now for the day When I leave my world behind me and travel far away ---------- 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, For there was one small step and 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 gifts that 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!