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 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, 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 calling, and we vowed we'd reach it soon. And we 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 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
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 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 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 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 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!