By Stan White & Lou Porzilli
Ó 1999
We travel at the speed of light
In suspended animation
Crossing solar systems to the
colonies.
Bringing supplies for the new
frontier.
Billy:
I left my family far behind.
See the glory in my eyes.
If there’s no going back to the
past,
I’ll travel to the future on a one
way trip.
It takes forty- five years just to
get to the star
Of the colony calling in need.
Billy:
By the time I get back, you won’t
be here,
‘Though I won’t even age a year.
I only see my home in hundred year
jumps.
I’m lucky if anyone’s there.
When I touch down, I’m a man from
the past.
A freak that you see, maybe once in
your life,
Once in your life, gather near.
I guess I’ll never know what I
could have been
If we’d stayed in our own time on
Earth,
But, there’s no going back, so I
might as well
See how it all comes out in the
end.
Billy and Crew:
And we’ll say hello to your
grandchildren’s grandchildren.
Say goodbye to you.