[ti:Rocket Science]
[ar:David Roth]
[al:Practice Makes Progress]
[00:09.61]It's fifty years since Sputnik, when the Russians shocked the world
[00:13.94]With an orb and two antennae Earth would never be the same
[00:19.14]Fueling our worst fears that we'd be vulnerable and weak
[00:23.19]If we did not respond in kind, we'd lose the game
[00:28.18]So we got our act together, and Explorer One went flying
[00:32.97]But not before the Russians sent a dog up into space
[00:37.78]If I said I knew why they thought dogs should fly, I would be lying
[00:42.48]They were caught up in some kind of human race
[00:47.47]A race to the furthest star
[00:52.08]A race to the galaxies above
[00:56.88]If a little bit of fear can go so far
[01:01.85]Imagine what a world could do with love
[01:06.02]......
[01:14.00]Gagarin took a spin around the globe in 61 and
[01:18.60]He was followed ten months later by an astronaut named Glenn
[01:23.41]Alexei took a spacewalk, Captain Kirk, he took our TV
[01:27.72]And I've never been the same since then
[01:32.99]A race to the furthest star
[01:38.03]A race to the galaxies above
[01:42.79]If a little bit of dreaming goes so far
[01:48.09]Imagine what a world could do with love
[01:51.66]......
[01:59.71]Imagine human footprints on a distant lunar plane
[02:04.51]Imagine floating science labs where gravity is gone
[02:09.74]Imagine the potential that our species could contain
[02:14.23]If we were drawn to love again
[02:19.37]I heard a scientist declare the world as we know it
[02:23.77]Is destined to be swallowed up in some gigantic hole
[02:28.66]And nothing that you do on earth will outlast or survive this
[02:33.06]Is there any point in trying to take control?
[02:37.99]Just another baby boomer, writing poems
[02:42.91]Putting flowers into rifles, hugging trees and singing songs
[02:47.71]And the questions in the air aren't rocket science
[02:52.42]What's the point and where on Earth do we belong?
[02:57.59]In our race to the furthest star
[03:02.45]A race to the galaxies above
[03:07.10]If a little bit of vision goes so so far
[03:12.60]Imagine what a world could do with love