Somebody Will -

Our new world is so close

Mars has treasures we’re only just starting to find

Frozen mountains and crimson dust

Waiting for footprints that will not be mine

A hundred years to run the first tests

Another to raise the first dome

The Moon, then Mars, then Titan next

A lifetime to touch each new home

And I want it so much

Close my eyes, I can taste the Mars dust in the air

In the darkness, the space stations shimmer

In orbits that I will not share

But I’ll teach the student

Who’ll manage the factory

That tempers the steel

That makes colonies strong

And I’ll write the program

That runs the computer

That charts out the stars

Where our rockets belong

It will never get easy to wake from my dream

When the future I dream of is so far away

But I am willing to sacrifice

Something I don’t have

For something I won’t have

But somebody will someday… somebody will someday

And it feels like a waste

All this working and waiting and battling time

And all for a kingdom that all of my efforts

Will never make mine

But brick by brick the Pyramids rose

With most hidden under the sand

So life by life the project grows

In ways I might not understand

I am voyaging too

We will need the foundation as much as the dome

For those worlds to come true

And I’ll clerk the office

That handles the funding

That raises the tower

That watches the sky

And I’ll staff the bookstore

That carries the journal

That sparks the idea

That makes solar sails fly

It takes so many sailors to conquer an ocean

And so many more when it’s light-years away

But I am willing to sacrifice

Something I don’t have

For something I won’t have

But somebody will someday… somebody will someday

It’s so easy to run

Hide away in my books, games, and fantasy plans

Let them call me a dreamer

Who can’t face reality’s grown-up demands

But if I love my fantasy worlds

It’s not fantasy love that I feel

And so much more I feel for this

The world that created them

World we create with them

One chance to make them all real

And I know we won’t stop

We’ve planned too many wonders for one little star

Though often the present

May seem too complacent to take us that far

But I’ll tell the story

And I’ll draw the picture

And I’ll sing the anthem

That banishes doubt

And host the convention

That summons the family

That carries the fire

That never burns out

There are so many chances to give up the journey

Especially when it’s so easy to stay

But I am willing to sacrifice

Something I don’t have

For something I won’t have

And not only me

We are willing to sacrifice

Something we don’t have

For something we won’t have

But somebody will… somebody will… somebody will someday