EMU space suit, helmet and visor attached, strapped
Temperature gauge, oxygen tank pried to my backpack
No time for no backtrack, as my mind drifts into abstract
Fear and panic kicks in, sweat drips under my glass mask
I'm frozen, my mind's gone
Got to keep this grip from both of my arms strong
Shades of the Apollos, Aldrin and Armstrong
Can't fail the mission, visualizing, dreading all of this gone wrong
Take a deep breath and buckle in as the start of the launch dawns
In eight and a half minutes using four million pounds of propellant
Three liquid-fueled engines consumed that the rocket's expelling
Accelerating, now we surpassing the speed of sound and excelling
Starting to lose gravity, can't tell if it's the ground or the ceiling
And now my blood flows upward, pooling from my feet to my brain
Cerebral veins, vision's getting blurry, can't see in frame
I need to maintain, as a G-Force of three Gs is attained
Finally released into our orbit as we exceed the terrain
We live within our limits from our frail rooftops
As we look up to the clouds, see if rain gonn' drop
Every day on Earth's a struggle, pain don't stop
But from where I'm at, all I see's a pale blue dot
From every great conquerer to all of those oppressed
To every species above and below the ocean crest
For anything we've known within our plain view stops
'Cause from where I'm at, all I see's a pale blue dot
My eardrums go numb to absolute silence
Shut the lights off of my suit, adjust the glance of my iris
All I see is pitch dark, Vantablack and it's skyless
Not a single star in sight, never imagined it like this
Turn my head and there's the Earth I seen in atlases and compasses
Just hovering in front of me and hanging on to nothingness
24,000 miles, move my hand around the circumference
The beauty is so wondrous, eight billion of us come from this
Then emergence of a blue flame emits from the perimeter
The mighty sun rises, just as I could witness this phenomena
All light is dim to photometer
The only thing that I could see that's lit is distant Andromeda
Temperature lifts on thermometer
And now my head is feeling full from the pressure of circulation
Can't let my muscles atrophy, train for self-preservation
And as I strap myself to get rest on this IS Station
The sun sets to reveal a majestic illumination
We live within our limits from our frail rooftops
As we look up to the clouds, see if rain gonn' drop
Every day on Earth's a struggle, pain don't stop
But from where I'm at, all I see's a pale blue dot
From every great conquerer to all of those oppressed
To every species above and below the ocean crest
For anything we've known within our plain view stops
'Cause from where I'm at, all I see's a pale blue dot
16 times a day I orbit the Earth in this motion
The green hue of Aurora Borealis, I witness it glowing
I could even spot pollution across the Indian Ocean
Or spot where crops are cultivated or deficient in growing
'Cause our history's showing steady technological progression
Tens of thousands years of lessons, times we prospered to regressions
From a flat Earth hypothesis and guessing
To atop a rocket ship reflecting
Integrate intuitions, contemplate with questions
The possibilities endless, every which way exploring
In this vast void, is there any other intelligence near and forming?
Or laying dormant, as our own planet is facing warming
We keep brainstorming, new and improved ways of terraforming
We stay reforming, steady building, solving, set up plans
Can't repeat history, killing for this 29 percent of land
That's surrounded by water, we conquered
We slaughtered, but we got to lend a hand
Now to each other, for each of us, to reach the new ascent of Man
We live within our limits from our frail rooftops
As we look up to the clouds, see if rain gonn' drop
Every day on Earth's a struggle, pain don't stop
But from where I'm at, all I see's a pale blue dot
From every great conquerer to all of those oppressed
To every species above and below the ocean crest
For anything we've known within our plain view stops
'Cause from where I'm at, all I see's a pale blue dot