HOPE? EERIE!

(Tune: "Hope Eyrie")

Songs grow old as our hopes grow cold
And the people who sang them age:
Time's cold wind blowing down our necks
Reminds us that those old Star Treks
Could move us once to rage.

CHORUS
For the Eagle is grounded, tell your children why:
Fear and greed have curtained off the sky.

Children learn how the far stars burn
A truth they never will doubt.
Life goes on and the younger minds
Turn to distractions of earthbound kinds
And NASA's funds run out.
CHORUS (And...)

But we who swore we would reach that shore
And see the world from outside
Must live on our visions and tell our tales
Of translight engines and solar sails
And deny the truth we hide.
CHORUS (That...)

Thirty years of unheeded tears
Have passed, and nothing's been done.
And today we watch as a robot jeep
Comes down on Mars and then falls asleep
To wait for the rising sun.
CHORUS (But...)

And those who lied to hold back the tide
Still hold the strings of the purse.
And the old earth groans 'neath the growing weight
Of her nestbound brood as the hour grows late
To meet the universe.
CHORUS (And..)

But they shall rue all they dared not do
The pressure's building apace
They must move forward or be brought low
By the ones who'll dare any trial to go
And claim the freedom of space
And the Eagle is rising, tell your children soon
Blood and death will give us back the moon.