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 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, 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 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 we try: And there was one small step, and a fire in the sky.
I 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 truck, but she's a truck that's aiming high. See her big jets burning, see her fire 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 in the sky.
Now, the rest is up to us, and there's a future to be won. We must turn our faces 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 sky! There's a fire in the sky, I'll remember until I die. A fire in the sky, a fire in the sky!