Astronauts, and cosmonauts, and spaceships in the sky A billion dollar price tag just to get that thing to fly While a man looks down and sees his hungry children as they cry We go upward to go forward going backward all the time Our cities and our people, they reap with blood and pain 'Cause some just do not trust a man who's color's not the same But they'll trust him in another land to fight a war and die We go upward to go forward going backward all the time Our children in confusion they don't know where they stand A product of society that they don't understand So they escape into a world with no control of mind We go upward to go forward going backward all the time The man who said that God is dead wears a collar too But why should God have anything to do with me and you We put our faith in fools and we expect to save mankind We go upward to go forward going backward all the time We've got to find the answers to the problems that we face Not only here but everywhere and save the human race Let's raise a flag and say that it was made by all mankind Let's go upward and go forward and not backward all the time Let's go upward and go forward and not backward all the time Let's go upward and go forward and not backward all the time