I felt much more ambivalent about the development of the Bell X-1 after I learned the history of the Miles M.52, but I still recognize the loss of Chuck Yeager. I grew up building and launching model rockets; one of my childhood talismans was a Matchbox SR-71. I can't remember not knowing about him.
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- 1: On the edge and off the avenue
- 2: We just ended up clutching at the empty rituals like gamblers clutching long odds
- 3: If one year's back on my shoulder
- 4: In my time on earth, I said too much, but not nearly, not nearly enough
- 5: Every song we sing and every kind of place
- 6: A wreck of possibilities, a volatility of stars
- 7: And there's this all-night garage and the 7-Eleven
- 8: I saw the world crashing all around your face
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