Parody: One Small Spaceship.
TTO 'One Small Boat' by Marilisa Valtazanou.
She likes me. She won't hurt me. I hope.
All the men in the valley are talking of progress,
They're speaking of fire and they're speaking of change.
They're risking their lives and how could they have done less?
It's always a shock when what's known becomes strange.
You turn and you ask me, "Don't you fear tomorrow?
The changes concealed in the things we don't know?"
I say, "I would rather risk strangeness and sorrow
On a path that allows us to grow."
We've hunted, we've wandered, we've tracked and we've struggled,
We've settled in valleys -- there's so far to go --
But into the future we'll find ourselves smuggled
On a path that allows us to grow.
The men in the village are talking of farming;
They search for the secret to growth and to grain.
This new agriculture's a trifle alarming,
It ties us to ground and it ties us to rain.
I turn and I ask you, "Should I stay a nomad?
Should we run away while there's still time to go?"
You say, "My beloved, this life isn't so bad.
I'll stay on the path that allows us to grow."
We've planted, we've harvested, watered and waited,
We've cultured our seeds, though the process was slow,
And now for the future it seems we are slated
On a path that allows us to grow.
The coal heats the steam so the wheel can keep turning,
The horses of steel and the lightning in chains.
There's so much behind us, there's so much we're learning,
And always the drive to the future remains.
We're counting our years by the hundreds and thousands,
We're casting our eyes to the skies all aglow,
And we're building our ships and we're making our vows -- and
It's all for the path that allows us to grow.
We've worked and we've changed, and we've learned to ask questions,
We've paid and we've reached and we've reaped what we sow.
We look to the stars, and we need a new quest, and
It's all for the path that allows us to grow.
Our children will scatter and sometimes I've wondered
If they'll understand why we thought we should go.
We'll start on a new world, a thousand, a hundred,
And all for the path that allows us to grow.
She likes me. She won't hurt me. I hope.
All the men in the valley are talking of progress,
They're speaking of fire and they're speaking of change.
They're risking their lives and how could they have done less?
It's always a shock when what's known becomes strange.
You turn and you ask me, "Don't you fear tomorrow?
The changes concealed in the things we don't know?"
I say, "I would rather risk strangeness and sorrow
On a path that allows us to grow."
We've hunted, we've wandered, we've tracked and we've struggled,
We've settled in valleys -- there's so far to go --
But into the future we'll find ourselves smuggled
On a path that allows us to grow.
The men in the village are talking of farming;
They search for the secret to growth and to grain.
This new agriculture's a trifle alarming,
It ties us to ground and it ties us to rain.
I turn and I ask you, "Should I stay a nomad?
Should we run away while there's still time to go?"
You say, "My beloved, this life isn't so bad.
I'll stay on the path that allows us to grow."
We've planted, we've harvested, watered and waited,
We've cultured our seeds, though the process was slow,
And now for the future it seems we are slated
On a path that allows us to grow.
The coal heats the steam so the wheel can keep turning,
The horses of steel and the lightning in chains.
There's so much behind us, there's so much we're learning,
And always the drive to the future remains.
We're counting our years by the hundreds and thousands,
We're casting our eyes to the skies all aglow,
And we're building our ships and we're making our vows -- and
It's all for the path that allows us to grow.
We've worked and we've changed, and we've learned to ask questions,
We've paid and we've reached and we've reaped what we sow.
We look to the stars, and we need a new quest, and
It's all for the path that allows us to grow.
Our children will scatter and sometimes I've wondered
If they'll understand why we thought we should go.
We'll start on a new world, a thousand, a hundred,
And all for the path that allows us to grow.