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