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Great Big Blue is a The Rentals song released on January 28, 2020.
The song is about the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, when, in January 28, 1986, the Challenger Space Shuttle, with seven crew members, broke apart 73 seconds after takeoff, while the launch was being covered through television.
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[Verse 1]
Frigid Tuesday morning, waiting for the winds to die
Shake the Magic 8 Ball; ask if everything’s all right
Outside the thermometer reads 31 degrees
Our families in the bleachers, bundled up so they don’t freeze
[Pre-Chorus]
Filled with pride to watch their children fly
Eleven Thirty, Eastern Standard Time
[Chorus]
(We want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue, we want to take you
Into the great big blue (we want to take you)
Into the great big blue
[Verse 2]
We skate across the launch-pad, anxious sled dogs on the ice
Tidal wave of darkness waits above the morning sky
Strapped onto the rocket, after multiple delays
Came down with “Go Fever”, after 6 or 7 days
[Pre-Chorus]
Lost in wonder, dreaming how it feels (how it feels)
Blasting off from NASA’s frozen fields
[Chorus]
(We want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue, we want to take you
Into the great big blue (we want to take you)
Into the great big blue
[Bridge]
Isaac’s laws of motion, coming true, right now
Classical mechanics start to take us down (we’re going down)
Atlas holds the heavens a little too (Atlas holds the heavens too far) far out
Falling to his ocean, never to be found (we’re going down, never to be found)
[Chorus]
(We want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue (we want to take you)
Into the great big blue
Into the great big blue
[Outro]
Grey graffiti sprayed across the sky
Fall like streamers, eighteen miles high (we want to take you)
Grey graffiti sprayed across the sky
Fall like streamers, eighteen miles high
(We want to take you) …blue, blue
Great Big Blue was written by Matt Sharp.
Great Big Blue was produced by Matt Sharp.
The Rentals released Great Big Blue on Tue Jan 28 2020.