© 2005 Beth Vernon
Space, Space is a very cool place and I doubt I'll ever fully understand
No up, no down it forever abounds and seemingly without an end
Distances too large to measure in our standard, earthly ways
We find by the yearly length traveled by light
Numbers so immense so impossible to comprehend
Even if you try and try and try with all your might
(yes, it truly blows my mind)
Space, Space is avery busy place, what with all the phenomena and goin's on
It's the birthplace of everything we showcase and every atom of us was once a star
Yes, outer space has comets, asteroids and moons
And planets like Venus, Earth and Mars
And dynamic implosions resulting in black holes
And galaxies and galaxies of stars
(yes, I wonder what they are)
Yet, Space, Space is very quiet place
With no air to allow transmission of a sound
No air for weather no way for lightning or thunder
No gravity and water's rarely found
It's a cold, pressureless world A dark and mysterious place
Only newly visited by men (and women)
Yet in other ways peaceful and friendly
Like no diseases to prevent
And free from war and greed and evil arguments
Bridge:
For as long as we could we have looked with wonder into the sky
But in the not too distant past, just for their thoughts, men lost their lives
But now we're free to dream and learn new ideas to conceive
And we have the technology to go, onward ho!
Space, Space is a very cool place and the race to get there has changed our lives
The way we dress, travel and communicate
How we heal and of what we fantasize
Space, Space is a very cool place
*my disclaimer about the song: Choosing a perspective to write the song from was hard...I chose the cold vacuum of space. There is however, lightning, thunder and "weather" on some of our solar sytem's planets. There IS gravity in space...I chose to say it that way because it was a better rhyme than "weightlessness" but make sure kids don't mix up zero gravity (weightlessness) with no gravity. If nothing else, use it as a critical thinking exercise: "what is wrong with this song?"