I first heard this song as a young teenager and it gave me goosebumbs. it was so loud and energetic. It really painted a picture. twenty years later, when the Columbia re-entry disaster occured I must have listened to it five times straight at full volume in my living room singing it out loud with tears running down my face. Though the song is still conceptually hopeful and inspiring, it has for me become also a memorial to epic feats and their occassional consequence. It is difficult for me ever since to not listen to this song and not see the twenty years between those two moments in my life as the bookends of a transitive period. From the immortality and limitlessness of youth to the known boundaries and realities of adulthood. Both happy and sad.
I first heard this song as a young teenager and it gave me goosebumbs. it was so loud and energetic. It really painted a picture. twenty years later, when the Columbia re-entry disaster occured I must have listened to it five times straight at full volume in my living room singing it out loud with tears running down my face. Though the song is still conceptually hopeful and inspiring, it has for me become also a memorial to epic feats and their occassional consequence. It is difficult for me ever since to not listen to this song and not see the twenty years between those two moments in my life as the bookends of a transitive period. From the immortality and limitlessness of youth to the known boundaries and realities of adulthood. Both happy and sad.