Prometheus, they say, brought god's fire down to man,
 And we 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 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.

 Now two decades since Gagarin, twenty years to the day,
 We've a shuttle named Columbia to open up the way.
 And they said she's just a truck, she's a truck that's aiming high!
 See the 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.

 Yes, we're going to the stars. See our fire in the sky!

         -- Jordin Kare

 (mp3 available at http://www.prometheus-music.com/eli/virtual.html)