They wore the suits and sat in the spaceship And they kept their mouths dry and shut Breaking the atmosphere never felt the way they thought it should But it still felt good enough Late in your dreams the Soviets teased you With red all around white and blue And you were unwell from the dregs of your failures So you turned your eyes to the moon And you made the people proud You made the people proud Apollo, I'd like to have known your true path The men that you carried were convincing enough And the truth can lie heavy on the tip of your tongue It's hard to admit to these things we have done It's hard to admit to these things Silver and Gold all the world waited for you And they turned their ears to the sound One giant step for man kind you moved forward And you made the people proud And I am persuaded when reading the paper That this is war, this is war And I am confused how can tying my shoes Be such a terrible thing You made the people proud You made the people proud You made it look easy to put them at ease You told them the things they already believed Despite all the demons that pulled on your sleeve You made the people proud You made the people proud