After watching the space shuttle go up, I felt compelled to sit down and rewrite the words to a song I'd recently heard on the radio. I don't really know why I felt I had to do this as I'm not much of a writer, I don't write for a living either. I wanted to share others though I truly feel it was written through me by someone, something, somewhere, somehow...
Played to the sound of U2s "Where the streets have no name"
I want to roam
I want to fly
I want to tear down the walls
that hold man inside
I want to reach out
and touch the flame
where the stars have no name
Ah ah ah
I want to see, sunlight on her face
I see the dust clouds passin by without a trace
I've build my shelter in this vast place
where the stars have no name
ooh ohh
where the stars have no name
where the stars have no name
we're still building
discovering unknowns, uncovering unknowns
And when I go there
I go there for you
Its what I can do
This space is a flood
Of past decades of dust
We're beaten and blown by our own wind
Traveling by thrust
I show you this place
High on the desert plain
Where the stars have no name
oh oh
Where the stars have no name
where the stars have no name
Still building
Still with you above
sending down love
And when you go there
I go there with you
Its all I can do
Oh I love to feel the rush
I'm beaten and blown by the wind
blown by the wind
Oh when I see you love
see you love to feel the rush
I am beaten and blown by the wind
blown by the wind
Oh when I see you there
I go there with you
Its all I can do
I see a vision of the astronauts about to take off. The power of flight flying into space from light to dark. The sun light as it rises across the world. Returning home and darkness fading into the next crew to go up. The 'angels of the lost crew' flying with them in the cockpit. As if watching over them, touching them, guiding them. Kind of like that famous photo of the vietman wall where someone is standing with their hand against the wall crying and the image of a soldier is touching their hand inside the wall.
Barbara aka Kapi In memory of those lost but not gone.
