1. |
Radio Free Luna
01:53
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2. |
A Gilded Age
02:39
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A song of praise
for a gilded age
Golden wires send our sighs
drifting into space
Silver tongues,
plastic guns,
and crystalline displays
A modern cage
for a gilded age
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3. |
Mercury-Redstone
03:17
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When the darkened Western skies
came alive with the sight of Eastern lights
in foreign constellations through the night
Their trails of fire streaked the sky
as their voices on the radio died
and disappeared into the morning light
[ALAN SHEPARD, MR-3]
On the periscope.
What a beautiful view.
Cloud cover over Florida.
3 to 4 tenths near the eastern coast.
Obscured up to Hatteras.
I can see Okeechobee.
Identify Andros Island.
Identify the Reefs.
Start retro-sequence.
Retroattitude on green.
Control is smooth.
[END]
When the embers fell, we chose to ride
on an arrow tipped with nuclear fire
with blunted head of civilian design
And the console lights all flashed in time
with the stars high in Siberian skies
Familiar constellations in the night
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4. |
Baikonur Beat
01:17
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5. |
Pioneer
03:42
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A shot across a distant night,
a sea of stars and satellites,
a course elliptical to the edge of the sky
Will the pull of Saturn's massive weight
carry me away into the dark?
A comet's tail in twilight flight
between the bands of pin-point lights
of ultraviolet in a hydrogen glow
A journey past the heliosphere
of Voyagers and Pioneers,
a course unbreakable 'til the end of the world
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6. |
A Polar Star
02:49
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7. |
NERVA
03:17
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Like a star in sandy haze
that streaks across the moon
to the farthest ends of the galaxy
from her home in these rolling dunes
If the sun falls from Nevada skies
with nothing new to show,
let her rest her head on the dry lake bed
in the radiation glow
'til the morning comes again
and the flags begin to fly
Strap her in with a pair of wings
and watch her as she flies
High across the desert sky
in red and plutonium green
Flying higher and further than
any man will ever see
Like a star in moonlit night
that flies to the edge of space
then gliders down to the desert ground
just to take right off again
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8. |
XK-Masada
02:05
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We opened gates to carry us away into the sky
and God knows why we never feared the stars
on the other side...
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9. |
A Colder War
03:05
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The looming shapes across the bay
See them move like apparitions in the haze
Hear the voices from afar
bring the tides of a colder war,
bearing maps of stars and arms from a different age
Uneuclidian spires rise in an alien place
Foreign constellations shine on an ailing race
And the open gates will carry us away
to God-knows-where way out there
And our minds will fly to the edge of an alien sky
never to wake
Hearing sounds below the waves of a helium sea
Training guns upon a foe they will never defeat
Praying psalms inside the heart of a dreaming beast
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10. |
Servitors
00:57
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Life Insular Quezon City, Philippines
I live on an island.
I make dreamy, vaguely nautical pop.
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