Thinking about Apollo

[PeterB]

I'm about to start learning a dance routine at the dance studio I learn at. The song I've chosen to dance to is Tasmin Archer's "Sleeping Satellite."

I'd always thought the lyrics had something to do with space travel. But until I actually read them, I didn't realise the strength of the message. So I thought I'd share them here.

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I blame you for the moonlit sky
And the dream that died
With the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
When I wonder why
Are the seas still dry
Don't blame this sleeping satellite

Did we fly to the moon too soon
Did we squander the chance
In the rush of the race
The reason we chase is lost in romance
And still we try
To justify the waste
For a taste of man's greatest adventure

I blame you for the moonlit sky
And the dream that died
With the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
When I wonder why
Are the seas still dry
Don't blame this sleeping satellite

Have we lost what it takes to advance
Have we peaked too soon
If the world is so great
Then why does it scream under a blue moon
We wonder why
If the earth's sacrificed
For the price of its greatest treasure

I blame you for the moonlit sky
And the dream that died
With the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
When I wonder why
Are the seas still dry
Don't blame this sleeping satellite

And when we shoot for the stars
What a giant step
Have we got what it takes
To carry the weight of this concept
Or pass it by
Like a shot in the dark
Miss the mark with a sense of adventure

Don't blame this sleeping satellite
I blame you for the moonlit sky
And the dream that died
With the eagles flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
When I wonder why
Are the seas still dry

Don't blame this sleeping satellite

Don't blame this sleeping satellite

[Joe Durnavich]

I don't know if you can dance to it (I suppose it depends on how many drinks you have had), but I have always liked Mary Hopkin's rendition of Voyage of the Moon on her Postcard album. This is beatiful song beautifully sung that I am not sure many people know about:

VOYAGE OF THE MOON
DONOVAN

The moon is like a boat my love, of lemon peel afloat my love, and with a sail
Of gauze my love , she seems to slightly pause, upon her silent way all on her
Starry way

I see her pearly decks my love set in with diamond specks my love, i see her
Pearly mast my love, far from her sea-shell past and gently does she sway
All on her starry way.

Of silk they have been spun my love, her ropes that limply run my love, down
To her carved prow, my love, down to her mermaid prow, and softly does she
Sway all on her starry way

All in the sea of sky my love, the moonships sail and fly my love, tho' many are
Their kind my love, tho' all need but one wind, to make their starry way, to
Make their starry way.

And there will come a time my love, o may it be in mine my love , when men will
Proudly rise my love and board to sail the skies, moonships from all the
Spheres, moonships from all the spheres

The men be bathed in light my love, the women clothed in white my love, all in
That wonderous fleet my love, as each the other meets, will smile and soflty
Sing, will smile and softly sing.

And on some distant sand my love, the ships will gently land my love, fair
Folk will meet them there my love, with flowing golden hair, and great will
Be their joy and great will be their joy.

The moon is like aboat my love of lemon peel afloat my love, and with a sail
Of gauze my love she seems to slightly pause ...