high in the sunlit silence

from

the sputtering gliding of the wright brothers to

charles lindbergh's glorious voyage over the sea to

the magnificent battle to sail to the moon

americans dominate the field of flight,

with bombastic determination to achieve the impossible

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew -

And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- John Gillespie Magee Jr.

Armoured cars sail the sky

They're pink at dawn

If I lived forever, you just wouldn't be

So beautiful, as the sun

When it shines all over the world

We're pilots watching the stars

The world pre-occupied

We're pilots watching the stars

Who do we think we are?

Ice and clouds, shimmer outside

Rain just falls, at magic hour

It's just the sound of you and me

Time twitching

Murmurs of our friendly machine

We're pilots watching the stars

The world pre-occupied

We're pilots watching the stars

Who do we think we are?

There's just the sound

Of you and me

(golfrapp - pilots)