Professionally manufactured CD in jewel case with printed insert. Pick, Pass, Play Productions 2009. Recorded (Mostly) Live in Concert in Phoenix. Note: International customers, shipping overseas is very expensive.
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Yes that's the real title. Loosely based on elements of Victor Koman's Kings of the High Frontier, Ken McLeod's Fall Revolution series, and general Libertarian anarcho-capitalist principles.
lyrics
Chorus:
--Cast off your shackles down below, join us on orbit here.
--Where freedom's no illusion, it's just as it appears.
--No tax to pay, no laws to break, no governments to fear
--"Space and Freedom" is the cry of the "Kings of the High Frontier"
--Space and Freedom (Space and Freedom)
--Space and Freedom (Space and Freedom)
--"Space and Freedom" is the cry of the "Kings of the High Frontier"
At the dawn of space flight, the government took charge
and spent uncounted dollars, to promise us the stars
but after several decades , well we had to face the facts
it was really just a bureaucratic full employment act
They called us all delusional, they called us nuts and fools,
To try to build a space program with private funds and tools.
But we didn't use exotic parts, or lots of fancy stuff
Nor gold plate every part to death, just built them good enough.
--Chorus--
One man built a rocket plane, just like the X-15
only several meters longer to carry out his dream
and managed to reach orbit with a fuel reserve to spare.
and now they're building rocket ships, and spaceports everywhere
Another built a winged craft, that flies beyond the sky
with turbojets for when she's low and rockets when she's high,
but it's cheap enough to operate, the engines fire and flame.
For her jets burn good old JP-4, and her rockets burn the same.
--Chorus--
So travel up to orbit where man's dreams are bought and sold,
We've never had a central bank so our money's good as Gold.
Where you'll never fear the tax man's bite, will steal your labor's fruit,
we threw the last one out a lock, without a vacuum suit.
We own the highest orbits, from GEO to L5
We have the highest living wage of anyone alive
and no one dare attack us, for we have the highest ground.
that ever has existed, or ever could be found.
Final Chorus:
--Cast off your shackles down below, join us on orbit here.
--Where freedom's no illusion, it's just as it appears.
--No tax to pay, no laws to break, no governments to fear
--"Space and Freedom" is the cry of the "Kings of the High Frontier"
--Space and Freedom (Space and Freedom)
--Space and Freedom (Space and Freedom)
--"Space and Freedom" is the cry of the "Kings of the High Frontier"
--Space and Freedom (Space and Freedom)
--Space and Freedom (Space and Freedom)
--"Space and Freedom" is the cry of the "Kings of the High Frontier"
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