We Figured Fire

Some animal looked up And thought Why

And everything changed

We figured fire We figured wheels We figured seeds go in the ground And the ground gives back

We cracked the atom open Just to see what's inside We shot ourselves past gravity Just to see how far we'd fly

We figured fire We figured flight We left our footprints on the moon And came back changed

Because we wondered Because the question burned Hotter than the answer

And somewhere right now Someone is staring at a thing Nobody understands yet And thinking

What if

An animal with a question And the stubbornness To chase it through the dark

We figured fire We'll figure this too We always do We always do

We figured fire