The Only Home We've Ever Known 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

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life

There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate

Visit, yes. Settle, not yet

Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world

To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot

The only home we've ever known