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We Dared to Dream

by Gary "MoFilker" Hanak

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Seventh completed song for as yet untitled fifth album. This track (as with all the others) has not been mastered yet, so there may be changes to it before the album comes out, when e'er that may be.

This one won the audience choice at OVFF in 2012 for the Songwriting competition (NOT the Iron Filker. The other one...).

lyrics

Title: We Dared to Dream
Composer: Gary "MoFilker" Hanak
Key: D (dropped D on guitar)

(Notes: Audience choice at OVFF 2012 Songwriting competition)

In some millennium long ago gone by
Somewhere an ancestor of ours watched the sky
Where birds soared freely up to unknown heights
And mountain tops glowed with the day's last light
And somewhere in those quiet moments - we took flight

chorus:
Before our quest for flight had well begun
And everybody knew it just could not be done
Even then when they who watched the sky in awe
Didn't really grasp just what it was they saw
And then, as something stirred, an eye would gleam
Even then -- we dared to dream

Many tried and many died while chasing glory
Many chapters harsh and painful made the story
But every chapter helped to bring us near
To that elusive goal so many held so dear
Pursued by folks like Leonardo, Roberts, and Montgolfier

chorus:
Before our quest for flight had well begun
And everybody knew it just could not be done
Even then when they who watched the sky in awe
Didn't really grasp just what it was they saw
And then, as something stirred, an eye would gleam
Even then -- we dared to dream

Bridge:
Foolish Icarus did sieze the dream that moved us
Who best embodied our goal? He, or Daedalus?
And those on Challenger, Columbia, and doomed Apollo --
Were their crew's last feelings those of
pain, regret, or sorrow?
Or did Icarus look out their eyes
As they fell from high up in the sky
And in their eyes was there a final gleam
That said -- "We dared to dream"

{instrumental}

Many say that space flight is a foolish quest
And more should be done groundside--in space, less
Might just as well wish us back to the trees
'Cause sure as, long ago, we left the seas
Our gaze is ever angled upward where, one day, we'll be

chorus:
Before our quest for flight had well begun
And everybody knew it just could not be done
Even then when they who watched the sky in awe
Didn't really grasp just what it was they saw
And then, as something stirred, an eye would gleam
Even then...
Even then...
Even then... we dared to
Dream

...We dared to dream...

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released July 20, 2020

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Gary "MoFilker" Hanak St. Louis, Missouri

Old person. Sings and plays guitar, piano, bass, accordion, and programs drums, sorta

Writes originals and parodies.
Currently there are four albums out there, with two more as a gleam in the eye.

Filk Hall of Fame awardee, winner of a Pegasus, and an invited music guest in St Louis, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, and Columbus. So far.

And, plays around St Louis in the live music scene.
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