Guideposts in the Sky

from Space & Freedom by Mark Horning

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about

Got the idea for this song while driving home from one of the Phoenix song circles. Driving east into the rising stars.

lyrics

From before history was written, to the future's distant shore,
The yearnings stay unsated, to learn and to explore.
The stars above stand silent watch, as time goes passing by.
Eternal in the ageless night -- Guideposts in the sky.

With little more than courage, and a club of bison bone,
We'd travel over hill and vale and through the woods we'd roam
Pursuing where the game would lead in the age of hand worked stone,
Relying on the stars above, -- to guide us back to home.

Chorus:
The stars burn bright to guide us, as we journey far away,
As they've stood fast to guide us, for all our yesterdays,
Through the ages span, since the dawn of man,
The stars keep burning bright.
--In the deepest night, we seek the sight,
--Of the star shine's guiding light.


We learned precision steering In the age of sail and wood
With sextant and with compass on the wooden decks we stood.
With nothing but the tall proud ships, and the stars to guide them by,
We conquered seas and continents, -- before we learned to fly.

In time, on cloth and metal wings, we learned to rule the sky,
With wooden prop or turbojet across the world we'd fly
And when it grew to dark to see the landscape down below,
We'd look up to the stars above, -- to point us where to go

-Chorus-

We have caught the photons cast out from our very own home sun
And tacked along the stellar wind on the Terra-Martian run.
No boom, no waves, no crashing surf, just round spinnaker sail
No clouds to block the beacon guides, -- that burn on without fail.

Now we ride the fusion fire, of our own bright captive star,
And set our course of travel on a journey light-years far,
The stars are all around us as, the ship begins to race.
We'll journey by our beacon guides, -- and meet them face to face.

-Chorus-

In the deepest night look to the sight the stars are shining bright!

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from Space & Freedom, released June 4, 2009
Words and Music: Mark E. Horning

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