Ride Sally Ride Lyrics

1983

She flew up up up in the galaxy

She went down down down in history

She was America's first space lady

Always one of the guys

She flew that rocket into the sky

She needed space, needed to get high

Needed to see this place from another side

Ride Sally, ride ride Sally, ride that rocket to the other side

We're looking up at you and you're burning bright

And the trail you blaze is a beacon light

Ride Sally, ride ride Sally, ride that rocket you were born to fly

The ones who'd hold you down are getting smaller now

They might be supermen but you are kryptonite

80s culture was weighing her down

Stuck in the closet here she needed to get out

A little liftoff let her find herself

In zero gravity where she could just space out

Smaller and smaller was the current trend

But as the hemlines rose, she suited up instead

To see a bigger view, to get out of her head

To put some space between her and all of it

Ride Sally, ride ride Sally, ride that rocket to the other side

We're looking up at you and you're burning bright

And the trail you blaze is a beacon light

Ride Sally, ride ride Sally, ride that rocket you were born to fly

The ones who'd hold you down are getting smaller now

They might be supermen but you are kryptonite

As she floated up on high

She looked down and saw with her own two eyes

This tiny ball of blue was not all there was to see

She looked around from star to star and was struck by the magnitude

That as a woman she had come this far

She was the first to see this view

She slowly reached her arm out and placed her palm over the dot of blue

She was bigger than it from up here

She was bigger than him

She was bigger than them

She was bigger than her fear

She was at home in her skin way up here

And as she floated the feeling was queer

But something from within had never been more crystal clear

Everybody down there thought they knew who they were and why

But nobody had seen it from the sky

Ride Sally Ride...

In a blaze of glory

She made herstory

In the atmosphere as she came down

She made a ripple that was so profound

They didn't feel it then; it didn't make a sound

But it's growing louder now

She felt the space above she'd left behind

She felt a new space she now occupied

And as her feet re-found the ground, she had this thought:

Well, I'm here and I'm queer and I'll persevere

Ride Sally Ride...

Sally, ride ride Sally, ride that rocket to the other side

We're looking up at you and you're burning bright

And the trail you blaze is a beacon light

Ride Sally, ride ride Sally, ride that rocket you were born to fly

The ones who'd hold you down are getting smaller now

They might be supermen but you are kryptonite