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 goin' back to Heaven, just to look him in the eye: There's a thunder 'cross the land And a fire in the sky!
Gagarin was the first, back in 1961 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!