Vaguely danceable rock, heavy variety.

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A last minute addition to the album, I just couldn't let things go without one more song about the Space Age. And here it is. I tweaked and twiddled with this one far less than the others, and it's all the better for it. Just slapped the tracks down, mixed it, done.

The break section features 3 guitar "solos" and one bass which are all first takes; I recorded each guitar without listening to the other two, and it works remarkably well all things considered. This by the way explains why, in this section, the bass doesn't seem to know where it's going (it didn't) until I found a kind of groove, dropped into it, and stuck with it.

A bit danceably boogie-tastic, here's a slice of space metal that for once I didn't leave in the oven too long and, as such, a fitting end to this remarkable album.

When man stepped out on lunar soil we thought the age of space had come at last,
But that one small step's history just garbage in the trashcan of the past,
And skeptics drone that plans to conquer space are but the ravings of a fool,
But we can reach for mankind's future and the rocket engine is the tool,

No time to wait for man to break the speed of light,
Let's start the engines now the future's looking bright,
We'll run on rocket power!

Beneath the glaring eye of Jove we'll probe the mystery of Europa's seas,
From Pluto's shrouded surface we can stare at last into infinity,
Our destiny can be fulfilled upon each planet we will make our mark,
And when each solar world is ours, Centaurus will be next within our grasp,

A new frontier will open under alien skies,
We'll see the beauty of the stars with our own eyes,
We'll run on rocket power!

Too many dreams have died it's time to get it right,
Now we'll return to space, the future's looking bright,
We'll run on rocket power!