Blasting, billowing, bursting forth   With the power of ten billion butterfly sneezes   Man, with his flaming pyre   Has conquered the wayward breezes      Climbing to tranquility, far above the clouds   Conceiving the heavens, clear of misty shroud      Higher and higher   Now we've learned to play with fire   We go higher and higher and higher      Vast vision must improve our sight   Perhaps at last we'll see an end   To our own endless blight   And the beginning of the free      Climb to tranquility, finding its real worth   Conceiving the heaven, flourishing on earth      Higher and higher   Now we've learned to play with fire   We go higher and higher and higher