Centuries of starvation
Loss and deprivation
Aeons of pain and sorrow
Sad yesterdays and bleak tomorrows
A joke only we could understand
It was good to have been man
It was very good to have been man
To leave our tracks upon the sand
To struggle on the race we ran
Eternity in the palm of your hand
A joke only you could understand
It was good to have been man
We passed the balmy sands of Mars
And longed to launch out to the stars
To break the tightening bonds of time
To seek the future free and fine
That was our audacious plan
It was good to have been man
The universe is a big place
And, it seems, it’s fairly empty
I forget now the time and place
I reached out and touched infinity
I held it in the palm of my hand
It was good to have been man
