This, other than mix tweaks, is the final version of this song. It's been a very challenging song, with a quite complex melody that I found very difficult to sing. I finally decided that I don't need a perfect vocal, as long as it's honest.

This is a song about an astronaut's first flight, and the trepidation they feel about it.

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My eyes
Try to find a hiding place
But there is no place to hide

It’s just
All a bit too much
To take in all at once

I swore
When I first saw this sight
That I would not cry
I would not want to run

But it’s a bit too late
To turn back now
And so I face the Earth
And then I face the sun

My eyes
Feel the weight of three of me
As they stare up through the sky

The clouds
Race away below me
Faster than my thoughts

My mind
Keeps its focus on the job at hand
Wishing time would fly
As fast as I

But soon
I’m where I need to be
Where few have been
So far above the Earth
And so I face the stars