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Only A Small Step

from A Most Imperfect Machine by Drew Stephenson

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Gagarin, Glenn, Shepard.
Bykovsky, Armstrong, Aldrin.
Tereshkova, Leonov, Collins, Cernan.

As we stood on the shoulders of giants,
Black and white reels on the news.
We left this new world behind us,
And turned away from the truth.

Sputnik, Vostok, Apollo.
Gemini, Vega, Atlas.
Redstone, Saturn, Soyuz, Mir.

Were you building a bridge to the future?
Did you know what you'd hoped to find?
Did you keep looking over your shoulder,
To check they'd not fallen behind?

Canaveral, Zvyozdny Gorodok, Vostochny.
Houston, Pasadena, Goddard.
Moffet Field, Plesetsk, Korolev, Baikonur.

Did you look around for footprints?
Kick up dust that will never fall?
Did you know in the heart of the silence,
That it was never a race at all?

Virgil, Roger, Edward.
Vladimir, Christa, Valentin.
Georgi, Elliot, Viktor.

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from A Most Imperfect Machine, released July 2, 2021
Written by Drew Stephenson and David Ford
Additional vocals by Paul Ferguson and Dmitri Cernolev

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Drew Stephenson York, UK

Drew Stephenson is a singer-songwriter based in York, UK, writing conventional songs about unconventional subjects.
Death, monkeys and space hardware may all feature.
He is also part of The Southern Wild.

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