Free Fall & Other Delights 02 - Rocket Rider's Prayer
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- "Rocket Rider's Prayer" from Free Fall & Other Delights
by Steve Savitsky
Cecilia Eng (vocals, guitar)
Kristoph Klover (vocals)
Ernie Mansfield (bass, clarinet)
from a box of cassettes sent to me by user "mulewagon"
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So was nobody going to tell me that there's an entire genre of space-themed folk music? Was I supposed to just find that out on my own?
Welcome to filk. Enjoy!
My thoughts currently as well
The lack of cultural continuity: it is strong. you do what you can.
"the god of Thieves and Liars, like the ones who built this ship" shows how much trust is held to military contractors
you get what you pay for
@@spacecorpse3212 and the portion that's taken for embezzlement doesn't count towards the final payment
can't belive people still listen to these songs
Never trust something built by the lowest bidder
homestuck
"May you aid our ship's designers now and find it in your hearts
To please help the lowest bidders who've constructed all her parts..."
Everyone felt that.
Which of the Mercury Seven was it who got in trouble for saying on the radio that it wasn't a comfort to know he was sitting on top of eleventy-twelve thousand parts, each built by the lowest bidder...?
There was a (I think) John Glenn quote of a similar nature:
“I guess the question I'm asked the most often is: "When you were sitting in that capsule listening to the count-down, how did you feel?" Well, the answer to that one is easy. I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million parts -- all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”
"Now departing: /TG/ Station."
"Never goin' back to that place again!"
Ah there we go APC destroyed mission accomplished
watch out for that double esword tot or he might cut your journey to centcomm short
Ah, the good old days of beating giant monsters to death with a hammeraxe
Attention all crew, why are there TWENTY FUCKING GONDOLAS IN THE BRIDGE?
Clown getting beaten by security again!11111
Definetly a KSP theme song.
"please don't steal my banking info"
At least its the theme for Bob, poor bastard. killed him less then three weeks into a no-respawn game.
@@queenman5794 I clond him after the incedent.
i've used this song so much before launching my kraken engine eve rockets (less a rocket, more a very controlled bomb)
Or space engineers. Or from the depths. Or- you get the point.
I like to think that at least a few real astronauts are singing this as they go up. It’s not very scientific, but it’s a nice comfort and a good song.
Sailors of the sea or stars are all a little superstitious. If it helps the ship sail they'll do almost anything.
When the rocket stands before us like a tower of glass and steel
Then no words in any language can express the way we feel
Mingled joy and hope and terror as we're starting on our way
And we suddenly consider that it just might help to pray.
So pray to great green Mother Earth and the grim old god of Space,
And the gods of flame and metal whom we've summoned to this place.
Oh you gods of flight and physics, now you have us in your care;
We hope that you will listen to a rocket rider's prayer.
So first let's pray to Vulcan, ugly god of forge and flame,
And also wise Minerva, now we glorify your name,
May you aid our ship's designers now and find it in your hearts
To please help the lowest bidders who've constructed all her parts!
As we're lifting off it's Mercury who'll help us in our need
Not only as the patron god of health and flight and speed
We hope that he will guard us as we're starting on our trip
As the god of Thieves and Liars, like the ones who built this ship.
If we make it into orbit where the sky is starry black
We'll have time to praise old Mother Earth and hope she wants us back
And tell all the other deities who've helped us on our way
That it's nice to visit Heaven, but we didn't come to stay.
Now we're coming down from orbit back to where the air is thick
With no engines and the glidepath of a highly polished brick
And with nothing but those tiles between our hides and flaming Hell,
Better pray to Hell's own Pluto that they glued those suckers well.
So now we're back on Earth again; the sky's a lovely blue.
All you deities we didn't name, you know we love you too.
We hope that you're not angry and you'll keep us in your grace;
We may need your help the next time that we're heading into space.
The whole bit about tiles and flaming hell is a grim reminder about the shuttle program. Here's hoping that starliner and crew falcon avoid those same mistakes
@@MalevolentMeles
"Boys, those black tiles are the only thing standing between you and the Mother of all friction burns!"
@@MalevolentMeles Steve wrote it in 1986, so...
I thnk my favorite bits are the ones in reference to cheap bids and theives building the ship.
When Savitzky sings it, he adds a couple spoken lines. Before "we pray to Vulcan" he says "this verse is dedicated to Morton Thiokol. Before the Mercury verse he says "this verse is dedicated to xxxx" where xxxx is whatever aerospace company is in the most trouble these days.
"Now we're goin' down from orbit,
back to where the air is thick.
With no engines and a glide-path
of a highly polished brick.
And with nothin' but those tiles
between our hides and flamin' Hell...
...better pray to Hell's own Pluto that they glued those suckers well!"
when you play FTL for the first time and don't know what are you doing just play this song and sing along.
Amen
I can agree with this
The lesson learned?
..At the point you realize _Warcraft goblins_ have more safety features in their vehicles than your ride, _pray to everything ever_ in the hopes atleast one of 'em hears you.
Nice song, I'm crying every time when I'am listening it (don't know exactly why, though). I've already re-writen the lyrics into Czech (my language) and going to sing it with guitar to my friends...:-)
How did you concert with your friends go?
I'm actually pretty interested in seeing the Czech translation of this song. Just reading it since I assume there's no recording of it's singing.
@@JohnnyJohnJohnson Yes, I'm neither musician nor singer, unfortunatelly... :'-( I only love to make Czech lyrics to foreign songs I like. Now and then some of them are used in the amateur choir I'm singing with...
@@miroslavhokes626 Could you show us? I'm interested in seeing how the song translates to Czech.
@@JohnnyJohnJohnson Modlitba rakeťáků
1. Když tvá loď se tyčí k obloze a vršek k ní má blíž,
žádná slova popsat nemohou, co přitom pocítíš.
To ti rázem hlavou proletí na tisíc božích jmen,
tak ruce sepneš k modlitbě a budeš přát si jen:
Ch: Ať nás chrání Matka Země, ať nás Slunce nespálí,
ať nám odpustí bůh ohně, jenž jsme drze spoutali.
Ať nám božstva ruku podají a nezatnou ji v pěst
proti nehodným, co se tam vzhůru k nim chtějí vznést.
2. První na řadě je Vulkán, božský kovář, výhně pán,
vždyť tam, kde právě sedíme, kov máme ze všech stran.
Jen ať naše loď je pevná a ať dobře slouží nám
každá její část, jako by ukoval ji sám.
3. A když stoupáme, zas Merkur ať nás chrání paží svou,
a to nejen jako strážce všech těch, kdo na cestách jsou.
Vždyť on přeje i těm, kdo se mají před zákonem třást
- a my právě jdem jak lapkové do boží říše krást.
4. Potom na orbitě, až se nebe modrý změní v tér,
vzdáme úctu Matce Zemi, ať k ní neztratíme směr.
Nebe navštívit je krásný, ale chceme domů zpět,
v jejím náručí si prožít ještě pár hezkých let.
5. A pak při sestupu z orbity až trysky umlknou
a my klouzat budem dolů řídkým vzduchem, žhavou tmou,
vládce pekla, to je Plutón - tak i jemu vzdejme čest,
ať nás plášť od pekla oddělí a drží vážně fest.
6. A až zase spatříme strop modrý nad hlavou,
každý ještě pošlem k němu tichou prosbu svou
všem těm, na které jsme zapomněli, tohle není špás,
vždyť už brzy budem stejnou cestou vzhůru mířit zas.
Welcome to the station crew, enjoy your stay!
I love that everyone is bringing their own favorite space game in the comments
Years later and throwing this on as I play through the mass effect series again
My go to, all these years later, for the James Webb Telescope. Much love and luck to all involved.
So far so good.
this is the song i listen to every time i play ´Homeworld´ 🚀
I love this one. I like seeing the gods they pray to...I could really see a rocket rider praying this way!
1:40 I think we all know that feel
Was so listening to this when watching the Crew Dragon launch! :-D
How dare these fools not praise the Omnissiah, our grand god of the machine spirit? Without the Machine God's blessing the machine spirit of their rocket shall succumb to the horrors of chaos.
May your binharic hymns always keep you in the light of the machine god,
Praise the Omnissiah!!
Well they prayed to Holy Terra, so that has to count for something. You get points for trying.
I thought they mostly prayed to Omnissiah, under some other names.
Truly, Praise the Omnissiah, the Machine-Spirit, and the Motive Force, which have enabled our weak flesh to construct their vessels on this plane. Deus Mechanicum!
Feeling like I need this prayer for Boeing lately
Daily reminder that rockets are basically big flying bombs
Big flying bombs going up, gliding polished bricks coming down!
Honestly I'm happy I found these songs xD
Oh man... this is awesome! :D I love such lost music from the past!
So I’m guessing this is like canon Adeptus Mechanicum music?
Mechanicum heresy, as the Omnissiah wasn’t mentioned.
Not nearly grimdark enough...¨
@@michalsoukup1021 huhuhuhuhuh, fugggin grimdark edge grim grim exterminatus ultramarines fuck the nids
Fuck you man, they're a bunch of tranhumanists who turned their washing machine's maintenance manual into a prayer book so that it'd be easier to remember the steps, that shit's goofy as hell. And what the hell's grimdark about the ORKS?! The fact that they theoretically could wipe out all other life? Sure, except that's literally balanced by "but they're dumb and just wanna crump some 'umies now an' den"
This is great. \o/
Thanks for uploading.
Guess I'll know what to sing next time my cutlass runs out of hydrogen fuel in atmosphere
Someone write a Russian Orthodox version of this.
Doesn't any Christian version of this just boil down to "Pray to God"?
@@christopherburgess96 Catholicism and eastern orthodoxy have saints.
Praying to Saint Barbara might work. She's all about engineers and people who suffer from sudden deaths, but she might also accidentally give you the Artilleryman's blessing and seeing as you're sitting on a missile, might not be the best.
H9092 Man, non-Protestant sects just make Baptists sound boring.
The engineer from factorio when he tries to get the rocket off the ground
Playing spiritualist in Stellaris like:
Space X theme song
@SavitarTheSurfingGod - Thanks!
Please max suit sensors..
SLS theme song. prove me wrong.
Does anyone have the lyrics for this song?
:3 thx
Hearing Cecilia sing this instead of Steve is somewhat disconcerting. I don't even remember this tape.
The Drake Interplanetary theme song
LMAO this song is made of Awesome *cracks up laughing again*
Oh the irony...we're steping backwards to straping a astronauts to rockets. 8^| dang
Not to worry; now the rockets are reusable!
Two steps backwards 3 steps forward
@GrigoriZhukov *snorts in laughter* Indeed
How tf you gonna call Vulcan, God of forge and flame 'ugly', then ASK HIS BLESSING!!?
It's just what he's called. They're not insulting him.
That's just a thing, he's really fuckin ugly. Literally just part of the Greek mythos.
Pretty awesome. Maybe one less chorus