The engines hum like ancient prayers
Steel and fire in midnight air
We leave the ground we learned to trust
With borrowed faith and measured thrust
Years of waiting in our veins
Maps of hope, equations, pain
Every dream we couldn't say
Counts down quietly today
In the silence of orbit I breathe
No weight on the past holding me
We rise on the edge of the known
Between the stars, between home
If tomorrow has a sound
It's this quiet we've found
In the silence of orbit I see
Who we're becoming, finally free
Screens glow soft like thinking minds
Learning us in real time
Hands let go, the body learns
How to float, how not to burn
Gravity loosens every lie
No up, no down, no need to try
Just a future opening slow
As the blue below lets go
In the silence of orbit I breathe
No weight on the past holding me
We rise on the edge of the known
Between the stars, between home
If tomorrow has a sound
It's this quiet we've found
In the silence of orbit I see
Who we're becoming, finally free
Mars is waiting, red and still
Not a promise, but a will
Every code, every machine
Built from something once unseen
In the silence of orbit I breathe
Old fears fall away from me
We are more than flesh and steel
We are dreams learning how to feel
If tomorrow calls our name
We won't answer with the same
In the silence of orbit I see
Human hearts in zero G
We don't escape who we are
We carry Earth into the stars