I recently started listening closely to Stars Die: The Delirium Years, and especially this song. Though its title seems on the surface to be sad, and it's lyrics describing the agonizing death that awaits our sun and the earth, within it's midst is the hope that was born of Man landing on the moon.
Our sun is destined to become a Red Giant, growing ever larger until it consumes the earth and inner planets, and eventually, burn out. We will have to leave one day, or die. The moon landing was the first step in our journey away from our fate.
I'd like to believe the last lines describe Man leaving earth for the stars, in starships. In suspended animation until we reach a new home, as our old sun fades into the black of space to join the other dying stars:
Shallow haze to blast a way
Hyper sleep to end the day
I recently started listening closely to Stars Die: The Delirium Years, and especially this song. Though its title seems on the surface to be sad, and it's lyrics describing the agonizing death that awaits our sun and the earth, within it's midst is the hope that was born of Man landing on the moon.
Our sun is destined to become a Red Giant, growing ever larger until it consumes the earth and inner planets, and eventually, burn out. We will have to leave one day, or die. The moon landing was the first step in our journey away from our fate.
I'd like to believe the last lines describe Man leaving earth for the stars, in starships. In suspended animation until we reach a new home, as our old sun fades into the black of space to join the other dying stars:
Shallow haze to blast a way Hyper sleep to end the day