Prometheus, they say, brought God's fire down to man. 
And we've caught it, tamed it, trained it since our 
history began. 
Now we're going back to heaven just to look him in the 
eye, 
and there's a thunder 'cross the land, and a fire in 
the sky. 

Gagarin was the first, back in nineteen sixty-one, 
When like Icarus, undaunted, he climbed to reach the 
sun. 
And he knew he might not make it, for it's never hard 
to die. 
But he lifted off the pad and rode a fire in the sky. 

Yet a higher goal was calling, and we vowed we'd reach 
it soon. 
And we gave ourselves a decade to put fire on the moon. 
And Apollo told the world, we can do it if we try: 
And there was one small step, and a fire in the sky. 

I dreamed last night of a little boy's first 
spaceflight, 
Turned into me, watching a black and white TV. 
There was a fire in the sky, I'll remember until I die. 
A fire in the sky...a fire in the sky! 

Then two decades from Gagarin, twenty years to the day. 
Came a shuttle named Columbia, to open up the way. 
And they said she's just a truck, but she's a truck 
that's aiming high. 
See her big jets burning, see her fire in the sky. 

Yet the Gods do not give lightly of the powers they 
have made. 
And with Challenger and seven, once again the price is 
paid. 
Though a nation watched her falling, yet a world could 
only cry. 
As they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the 
sky. 

Now, the rest is up to us, and there's a future to be 
won. 
We must turn our faces outward, we will do what must be 
done. 
For no cradle lasts forever, every bird must learn to 
fly --- 
And we're going to the stars, see our fire in the sky. 

Yes, we're going to the stars, see our fire in the sky! 
There's a fire in the sky, I'll remember until I die. 
A fire in the sky, a fire in the sky!