《Per Errationes Ad Astra》歌词

[00:00:00] Per Errationes Ad Astra-Ian Anderson

[00:00:00] We thought it over for a century or two.

[00:00:03] Considered all in light of such short history.

[00:00:06] Would you let them loose upon the

[00:00:09] stars? Bring their dark and murky

[00:00:12] waters to lap on pristine shores?

[00:00:15] Fine in their own place and with

[00:00:17] their own destiny to follow.

[00:00:19] But - breeding like rabbits on other

[00:00:21] worlds and with other calmer spirits?

[00:00:26] Per errationes ad astra? Then dream, dream on.

[00:00:35] The dream is all. All good sense gone.

[00:00:40] Neil, Buzz, and Michael, they made a team.

[00:00:42] The right stuff in a can of spam.

[00:00:46] The brave adventure came to nought,

[00:00:50] cruel economics had their say.

[00:00:52] A tiny bubble of pure white light from mighty

[00:00:56] engines roared on Pad 39A in the night.

[00:00:59] Orbiters and Soyuz towered on

[00:01:03] stacks of Lox and hydrogen.

[00:01:06] But what a little squib,

[00:01:09] a little firework in the cosmic crash of fiery

[00:01:12] fusion as far galaxies collide:

[00:01:15] drowned in the vastness of all we see

[00:01:18] and, still, can only just imagine.

[00:01:21] Let's not worry about the wandering man.

[00:01:23] He'll wander hither if he can.

[00:01:26] But his time may have already come.

[00:01:30] And gone.