Titanic: A New Musical - In Every Age lyrics

[THOMAS ANDREWS] In every age mankind attempts To fabricate great works, at once Magnificent and impossible On desert sands, from mountains of stone, a pyramid! From flying bu*tresses alone, a wall of light A chapel ceiling screaming one man's ecstasy! One man's ecstasy Miracles them all! China's endless wall Stonehenge, the Parthenon, the duomo The aqueducts of Rome We did not attempt to make with mammoth blocks of stone A giant pyramid - no, not a pyramid Nor Gothic walls that radiate with light Our task was to dream upon and then create A floating city! Floating city A human metropolis A complete civilization! Sleek! and fast! At once a poem and the perfection of physical engineering At once a poem and the perfection of physical engineering...