Name: Small Step
Duration: P00H03M50S
Description: The song puts mankind’s achievements in perspective - even if we’ve travelled to the moon we can’t control the tides or make our earth spin. The starting point was the 1969 moon landing and Armstong’s quote “One small step for mankind”, but the song also connects to issues of global warming and an apocalyptic future where we escape to a distant star.

Nomad State - Small Step

from Sound Stories by UWS MA Music 2020

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The song puts mankind’s achievements in perspective - even if we’ve travelled to the moon we can’t control the tides or make our earth spin. The starting point was the 1969 moon landing and Armstong’s quote “One small step for mankind”, but the song also connects to issues of global warming and an apocalyptic future where we escape to a distant star.

lyrics

Were dying to know
How to climb our way to the summit point
And dying to know
How to power planes and control the fall
They we’re dying to know
Would they win the race up above the sky
And dying to know
As the fuel ran low in the Seas of Peace
Our heroes are yearning for taking a leap out in the cold

Yet every small step back or forward
Doesn’t make the earth spin
The sun still keeps time, the moon pulls in tide
Keeping it together

If anyone saves us, then they need to know we’re willing to learn or dying to know
Will the sea be sand and the oil be dust?
Be dying to know
When the water’s gone and the air wears thin
You’ll be dying to know
If they’ll carry you to a distant star
We’ll be dying to know
As we burn our wings when we fly too high
And we’ll remember taking a leap out in the cold?

That every small step back or forward
Doesn’t make the earth spin
The sun still keeps time, the moon pulls in tide
Keeping it together
And every single step we’ve taken
Doesn’t make the earth spin
The sun still keeps time, the moon pulls in tide
Keeping it together
If something can save us, it needs to know we’re willing to learn or dying to know

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from Sound Stories, released April 17, 2020
Written and performed by David Reid

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Damfino Records is a record label based out of the University of the West of Scotland. It was established in 2020, and is run by staff and students at the university. Music at UWS has a long and rich history. This label showcases music from students of BA Commercial Music and MA Music programmes. All money from your purchases go straight to the artists. ... more

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