Spreading Our Wings
Words and music by Francis C. Parker, Jr. (FilkFerret) and Dawnya Thill © 31 Mar 2004


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I want to stand by ancient rivers, I want to gaze at antique hills
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On a new land before us that challenges our native skills
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A rover here I stand, and a wanderer would be
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To a place so far away across a silent starry sea

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	Spreading our wings  to leave our earthly dome
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	To walk among the stars and to colonize new homes
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	From Terra we will fly to the black veil of space
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	The Red Planet and beyond is a dream for the human race

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Oh Opportunity and Spirit will keep this dream alive
                                       C
We have the knowledge and the courage, and certainly the drive
    F                        C
technology and fortitude that come from many hands
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the need and the desire that come from many many lands.

	C             G         F              C
	Spreading our wings  to leave our earthly dome
		F             C          F            G
	To walk among the stars and to colonize new homes
		  F                     C
	From Terra we will fly to the black veil of space
			  G                        F             C
	The Red Planet and beyond is a dream for the human race

     C                              F                G
For centuries our eyes we've lifted to see the black traverse
                                         C
and we reflect upon it's vastness, our place in the universe
      F                              C
we've only just reached Luna, and have yet to touch the Stars
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Sooner than we think our children may be visiting from Mars

Bridge
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		Answers to life's beginning may be found
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		Beyond our atmosphere on Martian ground
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		For if the probes that we have sent are relaying true
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		Water once existed there, a sign life could exist there too

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It's not our fate we should stay here be trapped upon this soil
                                 C
For We are born explorers we have sweated and have toiled
F                                C
Always reaching, always searching, always learning still
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The call of the unknown shall ever beckon to our will

	C             G         F              C
	Spreading our wings  to leave our earthly dome
		F             C          F            G
	To walk among the stars and to colonize new homes
		  F                     C
	From Terra we will fly to the black veil of space
			  G                        F             C
	The Red Planet and beyond is a dream for the human race

   C                               F                     G
I want to stand by ancient rivers, I want to gaze at antique hills
                                  C
On a new land before us that challenges our native skills
F                                C
Always reaching, always searching, always learning still
     G                                 F           C
The call of the great unknown shall ever beckon to our will

C             G       F                C
Spreading our wings to leave our earthly dome
    F             C         F             G
To walk among the stars and to colonize new homes
      F                     C
From Terra we will fly to the black veil of space
          G                        F                  C
The Red Planet and beyond is a dream for the human race
     F                    C
From Terra we will fly to the black veil of space
         G                         F                  C
The Red Planet and beyond is a dream for the human race