Rocket Bursting In The Sky

Rocket Bursting In The Sky
From
'Say Something'
A Rock Opera

By William V. Mignoli Copyright 2007 Penguinson Publishing Group (BMI)

Performed
By
Rachel Filsoof

With Michael Carrasco and Skye Mangrum


The whole world saw it on T.V.
Spaceship liftoff and die right in front of me.
They flew high, way up in the sky.
They took a big chance knowing they might die.

Caught in a...
Rocket Bursting In the Sky
Rocket Bursting In the Sky
Can they sell us why they died?
Caught in a...
Rocket Bursting In the Sky

There was a schoolteacher (Up there) and an engineer. (Up there)
Exactor man of science... (Up there)
The captains pilot here.... (Up there)
There were true women traveling with real men.
The world joined hands when they met their end.

Caught in a..
Rocket Bursting In the Sky
Rocket Bursting In the Sky
Can they sell us why they died?
Caught in a...
Rocket Bursting In the Sky................(lead break)

They left their families, they left the country too..
They left the earth, (they were earthlings too). They left their bodies too!
Flags half down, monuments went up.
To always remember the seven we sent off.

Rocket Bursting In the Sky
Rocket Bursting In the Sky
Can they sell us why they died?
Caught in a...
Rocket Bursting In the Sky.

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