Ultimately at the mercy of powers you can't comprehend
The journey is just beginning but one day it must end
Five hundred thousand B.C. man sparks a flame
This discovery will forever change them
Mass migrations follow moving freely
The world is now populated advancements move quickly
As early as can be seen laborers are in need
Man starts his wicked reign with slavery
Fifty five hundred B.C. man is evolving
Irrigation, cultivation averts starving
The evolution after evolution
The evolution after evolution
Thirty one hundred B.C. a dynasty
Egypt was the first but there will soon be many
Each stronger, unrelenting, greater than before
Written language now established, the annals etched 
therefore
Wars are fought constantly, the struggle for power it 
seems
Never ending, never changing human nature extremes
Far in the future humanity will unite
The population will undergo a struggle for their lives
The evolution after evolution
The evolution after evolution
Fast forward five thousand years
Bring forth the information age
Begin the study of what's now known as the Earth
Which sparks the exploration of our universe
Great minds entwine together
Principa Mathematica
These are the ones
Copernicus, Aristotle, Galileo, Einstein and Ptolemy
The ultimate goal persists - escape the bounds of the 
Earth
Inspiration allows space travel, its birth
Tsiolkovsky, Goddard and Von Braun
Oberth, the pioneers to help with the unbound
Ion thrusters, the evolution after evolution
Super colliders, the evolution after evolution
Fast forward five thousand years, meager problems are 
replaced
With more significant issues thus begins the colossal 
space race