Pearls Before Swine - Rocket Man

This song, written the day of the first moon landing, is such a product of its time. I mean the musical style obv., but particularly the assumptions encoded in it.

First off that space travel will become a commonplace analogous to trucking, but moreover that husband/fathers’ lives will be more defined by work for pay and purpose than by any emotional connection to their wives or children, and the elegaic acceptance that this masculine work will carry the risk of injury or death.