Album Name

Voyager

Artist

Vinyl_S

Genre

일렉트로니카

Release Date

2019.11.27

Release Agency

바른음원 협동조합

Pale Blue Dot (feat. 신대철) - Vinyl_S
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 have ever known