It's fifty years since sputnik

When the russians shocked the world

With an orb and two antennae earth would never be the same

Fueling our worst fears that we'd be vulnerable and weak

If we did not respond in kind

We'd lose the game

So we got our act together

And explorer one went flying

But not before the russians sent a dog up into space

If I said I knew why they thought dogs should fly

I would be lying

They were caught up in some kind of human race

A race to the furthest star

A race to the galaxies above

If a little bit of fear can go so far

Imagine what a world could do with love

Gagarin took a spin around the globe in 61and

He was followed ten months later by an astronaut named glenn

Alexei took a spacewalk

Captain kirk

He took our tv

And I've never been the same since then

A race to the furthest star

A race to the galaxies above

If a little bit of dreaming goes so far

Imagine what a world could do with love

Imagine human footprints on a distant lunar plane

Imagine floating science labs where gravity is gone

Imagine the potential that our species could contain

If we were drawn to love again

I heard a scientist declare the world as we know it

Is destined to be swallowed up in some gigantic hole

And nothing that you do on earth will outlast or survive this

Is there any point in trying to take control

Just another baby boomer

Writing poems

Putting flowers into rifles

Hugging trees and singing songs

And the questions in the air aren't rocket science

What's the point and where on earth do we belong

In our race to the furthest star

A race to the galaxies above

If a little bit of vision goes so so far

Imagine what a world could do with love