[Verse 1]
C
Our new world is so close
G C G C
Mars has treasures we’re only just starting to find
G C
Frozen mountains and crimson dust
G C C G
Waiting for footprints that will not be mine
Eb Bb Cm G
A hundred years to run the first tests
Cm Bb F
Another to raise the first dome
G C G C
The Moon, then Mars, then Titan next
Ab G
A lifetime to touch each new home
C
And I want it so much
G C G C
Close my eyes, I can taste the Mars dust in the air
G C G
In the darkness, the space stations shimmer
C C G
In orbits that I will not share
F C
But I’ll teach the student
F C
Who’ll manage the factory
F C
That tempers the steel
C G
That makes colonies strong
F C
And I’ll write the program
F C
That runs the computer
F C
That charts out the stars
C G
Where our rockets belong
Eb Gm Ab Eb
It will never get easy to wake from my dream
Ab Eb Bb
When the future I dream of is so far away
[Chorus]
F C F C
But I am willing to sacrifice
F C
Something I don’t have
F C
For something I won’t have
F G C F G C
But somebody will someday…. somebody will someday
[Verse 2]
G C
And it feels like a waste
G C G C
All this working and waiting and battling time
G C G C
And all for a kingdom that all of my efforts
C G
Will never make mine
Eb Bb Cm G
But brick by brick the Pyramids rose
Cm Bb F
With most hidden under the sand
G C G C
So life by life the project grows
Ab G
In ways I might not understand
C
I am voyaging too
G C G C
We will need the foundation as much as the dome
C G
For those worlds to come true
F C
And I’ll clerk the office
F C
That handles the funding
F C
That raises the tower
C G
That watches the sky
F C
And I’ll staff the bookstore
F C
That carries the journal
F C
That sparks the idea
C G
That makes solar sails fly
Eb Gm Ab Eb
It takes so many sailors to conquer an ocean
Ab Eb Eb Bb
And so many more when it’s light-years away
[Chorus]
F C F C
But I am willing to sacrifice
F C
Something I don’t have
F C
For something I won’t have
F G C F G C
But somebody will someday…. somebody will someday
[Verse 3]
G C
It’s so easy to run
G C G C
Hide away in my books, games, and fantasy plans
G C
Let them call me a dreamer
G C C G
Who can’t face reality’s grown-up demands
Eb Bb Cm G
But if I love my fantasy worlds
Cm Bb F
It’s not fantasy love that I feel
G C G C
And so much more I feel for this
Ab
The world that created them
Ab
World we create with them
Ab G
One chance to make them all real
C
And I know we won’t stop
G C G C
We’ve planned too many wonders for one little star
G C
Though often the present
G C C G
May seem too complacent to take us that far
F C
But I’ll tell the story
F C
And I’ll draw the picture
F C
And I’ll sing the anthem
C G
That banishes doubt
F C
And host the convention
F C
That summons the family
F C
That carries the fire
C G
That never burns out
Eb Gm Ab Eb
There are so many chances to give up the journey
Ab Eb Eb Bb
Especially when it’s so easy to stay
[Chorus]
F C F C
But I am willing to sacrifice
F C
Something I don’t have
F C
For something I won’t have
C G
And not only me
F C F C
We are willing to sacrifice
F C
Something we don’t have
F C
For something we won’t have
F G F G F G C
But somebody will… somebody will… somebody will someday