Interstellar messages from dying worlds

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Inspired in part by "The Inner Light" episode of Star Trek, Next Generation, as well as V-ger from ST I and Arthur C. Clarke's "The Sentinel" - but... I tried for abstraction

The Message
Ron Tintner © 2009

V1:
Light years from the roar of Earth
In a quiet part of the universe
A barren planet sees its fate
In the rays of a dying star

V2:
Then in the dark of cosmic night
The sky explodes with caustic light
A signal meant for seeing eyes
That don't know where they are

RISE:
And from the photic aftershock
A message pulses like a clock
Through interstellar spaces
On UV EMR

CH:
Over and over
An echo, an omen
A puzzle, a cipher, a sign?
Over and over
A message is woven
All through the fabric of time

V3:
On solar waves it radiates
Toward distant worlds it gravitates
Like parchment in a bottle
Floating to the shore

V4:
We comb the sands of space and time
We sense the rhythm, seek the rhyme
And the meaning in the message
From a long departed star

RISE 2
A leap of faith, a cry of love
A futile prayer to gods above
A missive to a universe
That knows not who they are

--CHORUS--
-- BREAK, 8 bars --

RISE 3:
And from the photic aftershock
The message pulses like a clock
And after ten millennia
Goes on and on and on

-- CHORUS--