[Verse 1]
Paperwork before the payload, that's the first commandment,
FAA's Office of Commercial Space, read the amendment,
Fourteen CFR Part Four-Five-Zero, that's the framework,
No license, no ignition, don't care how the engine works.
Filing window ticking like a metronome under pressure,
Every bolt gotta match the blueprint, no room for guesswork.
Regulator ain't the villain, he's the last line of defense,
Ask permission twice, apologise once, that's common sense.
[Chorus]
Бумага прежде пламени, paper before the flame,
Разрешение, не извинение, remember the name,
Papers before the plume, permission before the boom,
Проверка, лицензия — launch inside the room.
[Verse 2]
Downrange they drawing boxes, call it the destruct line,
Flight termination system watching every second in real time,
If she yaws off the corridor, tumbles wrong, drifts too far,
Command uplink cuts the thrust before she turns into a scar.
Telemetry's the witness, tracking radar never blinks,
Range safety officer's thumb decides what falls and what sinks,
It ain't about the fear, it's about the folk on the ground,
Every abort's a mercy dressed in an algorithm's frown.
[Chorus]
Бумага прежде пламени, paper before the flame,
Разрешение, не извинение, remember the name,
Papers before the plume, permission before the boom,
Проверка, лицензия — launch inside the room.
[Verse 3]
Nineteen sixty-seven, the ink still holds its weight,
No flag can claim the Moon, no nation owns the plate,
Article Six says the state answers for the private hand,
Whatever badge you're flying, your government still gotta stand.
Now switch the frame to hardware — rocket ain't a toy,
ITAR calls it munitions, ship it wrong you're unemployed
by federal attorneys, 'cause the tech's got a passport,
Export control on guidance chips, that's the border they enforce.
Договор — не бумажка, границы в космосе тоже,
Sign the treaty, mind the border, space got rules, just so you know it.
[Bridge]
Every clause is a wire, every wire holds the thrust,
Regulation ain't the ceiling, it's the reason that we trust,
Не полетишь без бумаги, no license, no lift, no sky,
Sign here, товарищ, then we aim it and we fly.
[Verse 4]
Environmental review before the pad even pours concrete,
Checking wetlands, checking birds that nest along the street,
Spectrum licensing next, gotta whisper on your frequency,
FCC assigns the channel, don't jam your own telemetry.
Touch the lunar dust light, that's the planetary creed,
Document your microbes, log the site, respect what you don't need,
Not a treaty with teeth yet, but the norms are getting drawn,
Contamination's forever — write it down before you're gone.
[Chorus]
Бумага прежде пламени, paper before the flame,
Разрешение, не извинение, remember the name,
Papers before the plume, permission before the boom,
Проверка, лицензия — launch inside the room.
[Outro]
Papers before the plume, comrade, papers before the boom,
Тихо, ракета, тихо — permission, then we zoom.