Laika demo

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A slappin' rocker about the first dog in space, Laika, launched aboard Sputnik 2 in Nov. 1957.

Inspiration
"How many times could one breath be made to go round and round?" — Deception Well, a novel by Linda Nagata

“become nature, and then we wouldn’t dream of destroying it.” - in regards to a discussion of Joy Williams’ Ill Nature

A stray dog that has been given a name has a far greater chance of survival, Hannah Arendt famously remarked

The night before she was shot into space, the director of the Soviet space program took Laika home to meet his kids. She was, he said later, charming and shy

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Laika

She was a good dog. Shot into space.
She burned up on reentry
Her molecules spread over the place
Where I was born, that dog and me
We’re the same, that dog and me.

I think a lot about Laika.

We’re running together past the ping of machines
Out of these restraints and into the dream
THey said its for science, but now what do we know?
They still insist that this is a place that man must go.

I think a lot about Laika.

She couldn’t turn around and walk away
How many times can a breath go round anyway?
She couldn’t turn around and walk away
How many times can a breath go round anyway?

If we were real we wouldn’t own it
We’d be just nature instead of trying to control it
We’re burning thru carbon like life was free
Physics takes over, and the rest is history

I think a lot about Laika.

She was a good dog. Shot into space.
She burned up on reentry
Her molecules spread all over the places
We were born, that dog and us
We’re the same, that dog and us.

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released August 23, 2020
Written, performed, produced, and mixed in a bucket by Brian-Clarice Clark AKA The Plural Muses

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