Challenger Memorial 15 - Hope Eyrie [HQ]

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Lyrics.
Worlds grow old and suns grow cold
And death we never can doubt.
Time's cold wind, wailing down the past,
Reminds us that all flesh is grass
And history's lamps blow out.
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
Cycles turn while the far stars burn,
And people and planets age.
Life's crown passes to younger lands,
Time brushes dust of hope from his hands
And turns another page.
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
But we who feel the weight of the wheel
When winter falls over our world
Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
To a silver moon in the opened skies
And a single flag unfurled.
But the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
We know well what Life can tell:
If you would not perish, then grow.
And today our fragile flesh and steel
Have laid their hands on a vaster wheel
With all of the stars to know-
That the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.
From all who tried out of history's tide,
Salute for the team that won.
And the old Earth smiles at her children's reach,
The wave that carried us up the beach
To reach for the shining sun.
For the Eagle has landed; tell your children when.
Time won't drive us down to dust again.

[@cameronstrathdee1772]

Leslie Fish is leading, but it's everybody's voice, together, that really makes it.

[@Azremodehar]

Completely agreed. Just makes me tear up every time.

[@johnburt1172]

We must return to Luna, and move on to Mars, and not merely visit but learn to live on other worlds.
"It is the death of Earthlife to take root among the stars." - Octavia Butler
It doesn't have to be done by Americans. It just has to be done by humans. The first man into space wasn't an American. Neither was the first woman.
But I'm more than okay with Americans taking part. imgur.com/ANAVmI1

[@the13inquisitor59]

I love Julia Eckler's version, but this one is fantastic as well.

[@philippson9975]

Nice

[@flinko99]

I have an irrational grudge against the versions that refer to Time with "him", but this is a real good one.

[@SongsfromtheStars]

Personifying Time as a man has a long history, but if you prefer Time to be a woman, Julia Ecklar's performance of Hope Eyrie on To Touch the Stars uses "her."

[@orion3253]

The person who wrote the song was both not a man and not against portraying the personification of time as male. Coming up with alternate lyrics to a song is cool too though.

[@flinko99]

@@orion3253 I know.

[@emuannihilator5774]

Isn't the whole point that it's Father Time and Mother Nature/Earth?

[@teeffw2776]

The Eagle has landed, tell your children when, because your children will never, ever, ever have your wealth in their lives again.

[@landonrounsavall1125]

What are you trying to say?

[@teeffw2776]

@@landonrounsavall1125 Hard times are ahead, friend. It will be a long while before the world has enough wealth and dedication to send three lunar missions a year when just a decade prior there were zero manned space capability.

[@Magic-V8-P71]

​@@teeffw2776 India made it onto the moon recently and the space industry is developing rapidly. We make big achievements in space less often than during the space race but we're still seeing achievements inside the industry.
Well see great things happen one day. Maybe sooner than you think.

[@propyne5460]

@@teeffw2776 That aged poorly, thankfully