The Commander Thinks Aloud

The Long Winters

most songs are about the relationship between two people. about love.

the Columbia Space Shuttle disintegrated during re-entry into earth’s atmosphere in the sky over Texas and Lousiana on February 1, 2003. all seven crew members were lost.Boys and girls in cars 

Dogs and birds on lawns 
From here I can touch the sun 
Yeah 

Put your jackets on 
I feel we’re being born 
The Tropic of Capricorn is below 
Yeah

We stall above the pole 
Still your face is young 
As we feel our weight return 
Yeah 

A trail of shooting stars 
The horses call of storm 
Because the air contains the charge 
Yeah yeah yeah yeah 

The radio is on 
And Houston knows the score 
Can you feel it? 
We’re almost home 
Yeah yeah yeah yeah 

The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up

This is all I wanted to bring home to you

The Commander Thinks Aloud

The Long Winters

The Commander Thinks Aloud|The Long Winters


For those who don’t know, this is a song written about the Columbia disaster nine years ago.

Also check out the lovely cover of this song by Adam Savage of Mythbusters at W00tstock.

The Commander Thinks Aloud

The Long Winters

The NASA space shuttle program defunding just kinda registered with me this morning when I was thinking my thought things on the train trip to work.

I always wanted to be an astronaut. Not for real - I’m not gifted with the maths and sciences - but that thought of exploding into the weird scariness that is outer space is something I’ve dreamt about constantly.

I’m gunna go eat some dippin dots today.

(By the way, this is my favorite song about someone dying in a rocketship explosion)

The Commander Thinks Aloud

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the commander thinks aloud - eaneikciv

my friend scott requested/demanded a cover of this song, so here it is! i might have a better version after he’s finished doing whatever he might be doing with it. anyway, to those few of you that don’t immediately scroll past any and all audio posts (i’m guilty of it too sometimes) I hope you enjoy! leave a reply and boost my ego a little will ya?

oh, and you can download this cover for yourself here.

[edit] i totally didn’t mean to click “answers enabled” and now it won’t let me change it so… ah, i can’t even think of an actual question to ask everyone. i quit.

The Commander Thinks Aloud

The Long Winters

Song: The Commander Thinks Aloud

Artist: The Long Winters

Album: Ultimatum

I really do hope something dramatic happens so that I can play this music as I walk away.

01 The Commander Thinks Aloud

The Long Winters

Ten years ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. All seven crew members onboard STS-107 died as their orbiter fell apart, piece by piece. While NASA suspected some damage may have occurred during their liftoff, they determined that there was nothing they could’ve done to prevent any of this from happening. This is a song for today.

Boys and girls in cars 
Dogs and birds on lawns 
From here I can touch the sun 
Yeah yeah 

Put your jackets on 
I feel we’re being born 
The Tropic of Capricorn is below 
Yeah yeah yeah yeah 

We stall above the pole 
Still your face is young 
As we feel our weight return 
Yeah yeah 

A trail of shooting stars 
The horses call of storm 
Because the air contains the charge 
Yeah yeah yeah yeah 

The radio is on 
And Houston knows the score 
Can you feel it? 
We’re almost home 
Yeah yeah yeah yeah 

The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up 
The crew compartment’s breaking up
This is all I wanted to bring home to you

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