Space Heroes & Other Fools 09 - Pushin' the Speed of Light [HQ]
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2020
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Lyrics.
Now the big ships fly to a hundred suns, by pushing the speed of light
And they want good men for the deep space runs, pushing the speed of light!
And the pay is good, and you're young and strong,
And you tell yourself that it won't be long
So you sign on board, hear the drive's deep song,
Pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
And you've left behind the world of men
With no way in space to go home again
When you're pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
Now it's two months out and it's two months back, when you're pushing the speed of light
Twenty years on your homeworld's track, pushing the speed of light
And your friends are gone and your lovers too
And there's damn-all left that you can do
And you try to lie, but you know it's true, pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
So you sign back on for another run of pushing the speed of light
And you swear to God that your pushing's done, pushing the speed of light
But that one run turns into four or five
And your heart beats time to the humming drive
And there's nothing left keeps you alive, but pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
Now you've spread your seed with the star drive's flame, by pushing the speed of light
Left sons behind you to carry your name, pushing the speed of light
And you watch them age, and you watch them die,
As you race the light-wind across the sky
And the gods are silent when you ask them, Why? Pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
Now, the speed of c is a wall, they say, when you're pushing the speed of light
That cuts you off from yesterday, pushing the speed of light
But you know someday you're gonna win that race
And fly back the years to your starting space
And you'll stay awhile 'fore you're back in space, pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
And you've left behind you the world of men
With no way in Hell to go home again
When you're pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
![Space Heroes & Other Fools 02 - Ballad of a Spaceman [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OhYzq8GS0S8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Space Heroes & Other Fools 02 - Ballad of a Spaceman [HQ]](/img/tr.png)
![Carmen Miranda's Ghost 05 - Some Kind of Hero [HQ]](/img/1.gif)
I like that he wants to go back in time, not to prevent himself from going to space, just waiting longer till he does. So even after everything he's been through, he still wants to go back into space eventually.
Don't you know what starlight is? It's all of the spacers who finally won the race. Managed to beat C and travel back to the days of their youth. They were ripped atom from atom and quark from quark until there was nothing left but photons, streaking across the void, praying against all odds for a chance to brush against their lover's face one last time, and die as a bit of warmth on their cheek.
That's a truly gorgeous and tragic narrative. Did you come up with it yourself?
@@canislupus3655 The particular wording I used was inspired by the webcomic XKCD, strip number 811.
jesus christ. I love this
Oh hey, a poet! You don't see those very often anymore.
Fuck, I'm crying about fictional astronauts at work again
I'm so fucking glad I searched "Space Shanty" in the search bar.
You too? I recently picked up Elite Dangerous again, and wanted to FEEL like a space pilot in the 3000s so I typed space shanty. Best decision I ever made
@@recording_closet9100 Awesome! I haven't really played Elite since November in favor of DCS but maybe I'll play it again soon!
@@clippedwings225 At least for me Elite Dangerous, is the kind of game that I play for months on end, and than drop it for a few months.
This one and a ballad of a space man are my favorite on this album
Makes me incredibly sad to think about all the sacrifices people will have to make if we collectively want off this rock
Anything worth having is worth sacrifice.
Plenty of living space in trans-lunar space that doesn't need folk to commit to heroic voyages such as these.
I’d be happy to die in the great void surrounded by beauty at all angles and finally Finally free..truly free
Time dilation makes this song hurt a lot. This could really happen...
Unless the foundations of physics are wrong, it *will* happen. It's as good as space travel can physically get.
In thousands of years, I hope some ancient-data diving algorithm brings this song up for those travelers to find and know we were thinking of them.
@@I_Am_This_Guy I'm pretty sure if we ever send people to the "stars" with sublight tech, they will never come back, so aging different won't be a thing. One way trips.
Most probably we'll just have our machines spread around the galaxy slowly and no humans.
Unless we are able to create FTL drives.
One funny story would be if we send a "slow" ship to another star system and then we discover FTL and send other people to that star and they arrive earlier than the team we sent first, who have no idea this happened. Maybe they are in stasis or time dilation for a century and expected to leave Earth and other humans behind forever, but they wake up and are surprised by an existing human colony at their destination.
We could also figure out a way to go FTL
@@mrtortoise3766 with our current understanding of physics, going faster than light would break the laws of physics
@@tomaszkietyka2325 I know but our current understanding may get wrong or we could cheat a little but
Three centuries pass before you know; How far you've come and how far you'll go
But now nothing's left for you to show; For pushing the speed of light
Your last haul is done and you have no home
And the stars above call out to roam
So you sign aboard a survey ship; Once more pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
Nice text! I'd like to offer some minor modifications, so it better fits the melody:
Three centuries pass and at last you know why you’re pushing the speed of light
Just how far you've come and how far you'll go, while pushing the speed of light
Now your last haul’s done and you have no home
And the stars above summon you to roam
So you join the flight into the unknown, once more pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
And one last verse, just to nicely round the ending:
On a survey ship you’ll now map the stars, pushing the speed of light
And they say time heals but it leaves the scars, from pushing the speed of light
So you pack your things and you make last calls
Someone says ‘so long’ but you know it’s false
Then you take your seat and you plot the course for pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
And you leave behind you the world of men
With no way nor wish to go back again,
When you’re pushing the speed of light
Pushing the speed of light
@@nautilus2151 Yep! This is definitely a better fit. Great work here.
The quality of the recording and the quality of the cover image are both [chef's kiss].
I have to say that I love this song. It evokes so many feelings, as deep as the void between the stars. Thanks for sharing!
This sounds like a Merchanter's song in Cherryh's universe
There isn't a word I can find to describe how this makes me feel. Hopeful melancholy maybe. Either way it has imprinted upon my soul.
I've NEVER before encountered a song that makes me feel these emotions.
Wow, I've been listening to that old Cassette version on RUclips for the past 5 years at least and I've just been used to that quality. I never would have dreamed there was a higher quality version of these songs out there, bless you man! Also thanks for the dropbox for preservation purposes! Instant subbed
I FOUND IT FINALLY
Wow, they weren’t kidding when they said pushing the speed of light. Doing the math for 4 months to dilate to 20 years assuming an earth year, our spaceman would have to be traveling at about 299750817.2667m/s or 0.999861101465c or 0.999861101465% the speed of light, that’s fast, way fast. Of course, that's not accounting for acceleration or deceleration.
pushing the poetic license
When I am old and many of my body parta are replaced with cybernetics and after I have out lived everybody I have ever loved...I'll sign up as an Ultranaut like in the Alistair Reynolds novels and right a Lighthugger to the end of space! Cool!!!!!
Just like Clavain. Hopefully you don't end up like him, though.
This is such a good quality, thank you!
I personally like to think that one day, the protagonist does outrun light, but there's still no way to go _back_, so he can't return to *when* he came from. He breaks the light barrier and ushers in a new age of true FTL, sparing future generations from his fate, at the cost of having already seen everyone he loves age and die several times over. I know it's not what they were going for, but it's what I've settled on for an original world of mine (that draws a lot from a bunch of old filk) :))
Hey, I know its been a year but is there some other filk you can rec?
@@milo8177 I think everything I would rec is on this channel somewhere XD
Queen sang a song called '39 with the idea of leaving and coming back many years later when it's only been a short time for the person. Very interesting.
Written by Brian May, who put his PhD in astrophysics on hold to dedicate himself to the band.
This is quite profound. But I sometimes feel that way about our lives on Earth too. We only live like 75 years, we often lose friends and family, some die, some simply go away and you lose touch. Even if we had immortality we'd still only be able to experience an infinitely small slice of humanity.
So life really, is just about enjoying the moment, the present, and the space around you, what is close, the people and things that are in proximity.
Sign me up, lets push some speed of light!
Wow, you listened to the entire song and somehow completely missed the point?
@@CoRLex-jh5vx maybe he interpreted it differently dude
@@npickle54 so, the lyrics literally about your entire family dying while you're gone is just 'up to interpretation'? I wasnt criticising the guy 100% seriously, just that 'sign me up' really shouldn't be the correct response unless you hate your family
@@CoRLex-jh5vx that last bit was kinda my point sorry I wasnt trying to be all know it all either idk just that I would consider somthing like that myself due to no family n shit life lol
@@npickle54 you're fine, you didn't come across as a know-it-all at all. Sorry about the 'shit life'
Time dilation is fucking terrifying
Anytime you move relative something else you get time dilation - it’s just a matter of scale. 😉
Fun fact: The act of climbing a stairwell causes time dilation!
"But you know someday you're gonna win that race And fly back the years to your starting space". So do you think this means he built a Tachyon Drive broke the Speed of light and went back in time to the start of his voyage and figured "Hey let's go round again?". Because that is how I interpret the song. Any thoughts people?
Felt like that's what they meant
That's a neat idea, but I think it's just meant to describe the character's increasing delusion.
@@SongsfromtheStars That is another valid interpretation. He keeps trying to exceed the speed of light in a vain attempt to go home again but he just keeps moving farther into the future and farther away from home. It could go either way. Depends on wither or not you want a "happy" ending to this song or not.
Starting space. But not your starting time. You'll find yourself back on earth for sure, but you'll never be able to return home.
@@jamesms4 he'd need to time travel to the past, which is paradoxically impossible. Hence why he's being overcome by (spacetime) madness.
One could write an awesome movie script based on this song?
Interstellar? Its not quit it, but its pretty close
You might also like the anime Gunbuster which deals with the time dilation aspect of things, especially one critical episode when it really hits one of the characters.
I believe the song is actually inspired by John Varley's story "The Pusher".
fuck... I wanna add this to my sea shanty playlist....
but it's not about the sea.... could I make the excuse that space is just the sea of the sky?
Lonely souls separated from their fellow man by a vast expanse. In spirit, it's all the same
@@matthewquan9083 Precisely right. People pitting their fragile craft against a vast emptiness that can kill them at any time and holds them enthralled with its glory and terror in equal measure.
Sailors are sailors, whether it's blue-water or black-sky.
Just got pushed across my recommendations, new album to go buy!
I still did not find "Carmen Miranda's Ghost" and this one unfortunaly. I don't think there's any of them being sold at the moment.
@@theBETA_DEV none of these albums have been in print since the '90s at the latest
Given a gamma ratio of 4/240 months the 'big ships' would be traveling at 99.986% the speed of light
Edit: Gamma is the ratio of relative time over stationary time, in this case 4 months experiences to 20 years homeworld
that is pushing the speed of light
This and the album picture in high quality is sensational, than you!
I saw somewhere on maybe another upload of this song that to get this extreme time dilation you would need to go something like 99.98% the speed of light
Yes, the time differential is a bit on the high side
It was 99.986%
@@johnstark1447 I rounded to the nearest hundredth
Hence, Pushing the Speed of Light. You're going as fast as it's possible for matter to go
This would make one hell of a Gunbuster AMV.
This song inspired something I had wrote when I was senior in high school, it and other filk songs.
Makes me think of Queen's '39.
Love this song, Mournful, but hopeful.
Someone did a take-off of this song called Pushing The Speed Of Sound. Anyone know where to find it?
Track 8 on “A Little Rat Music”
archive.org/details/filk_a_little_rat_music
@@SongsfromtheStars Thanks. It's been siting right in front of me all this time.
There’s one song that’s about the same concept but it’s a group of people on a light pushing ship that departed right before warp drive was invented, so when they get to their destination they’re useless relics and kill themselves. Anyone remember the name?
Bill Roper, “Space is Dark.” Here’s a link. ruclips.net/video/LA1sA5MD8J0/видео.html
@Trekintosh This one? (Space is dark - Bill Roper) ruclips.net/video/LA1sA5MD8J0/видео.html
Can't say I do, but I just finished a book with the same concept
"Starman's Saga: The Long, Strange Journey of Leif the Lucky" by Colin Alexander
@@barragethree5047 Space Is Dark by Bill Roper!
Space is Dark ruclips.net/video/LA1sA5MD8J0/видео.html
The pay is good, but are they paid for 2 months or 20 years?
Does anyone know of this songs cover/remake where the quality is better?
ghostly and eerie
me with ss13:
What a take on spending months at sea, except you're even more removed from the community you left to serve it. It's time for us to leave her Johnny, leave her.