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June 28, 2010
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Story behind the song
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Lyrics
From this distant vantage point
the Earth might not seem of any particular interest
But for us, it's different
Consider again that dot
That's here, that's home, that's us
On it everyone you love
everyone you know
everyone you ever heard of
every human being who ever was
lived out their lives
The aggregate of our joy and suffering
thousands of confident religions
ideologies and economic doctrines
every hunter and forager
every hero and coward
every creator and destroyer of civilization
every king and peasant
every young couple in love
every mother and father
hopeful child
inventor and explorer
every teacher of morals
every corrupt politician
every "superstar"
every "supreme leader"
every saint and sinner in the history of our species
lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
The Earth is a very small stage
in a vast cosmic arena
Think of the rivers of blood
spilled by all those generals and emperors
so that, in glory and triumph
they could become the momentary masters
of a fraction of a dot
Think of the endless cruelties
visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel
on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner
how frequent their misunderstandings
how eager they are to kill one another
how fervent their hatreds
Our posturings
our imagined self-importance
the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe
are challenged by this point of pale light
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark
In our obscurity
in all this vastness
there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere
to save us from ourselves
