The Asteroid Belt

[Intro] Everything you need to make a world And nothing holding it together [Verse 1] Millions of us between the red and the giant Rock and metal, ice and dust All of us together, weighed as one Still lighter than your Moon, if you must Ceres holds a third of everything here The rest is gravel and stone Spread so thin across so much dark That a ship flies through alone [Chorus] The planet that never happened Jupiter never let us fall in line Every time we gathered, he pulled us apart And left the pieces turning, out of time [Verse 2] Vesta, Pallas, Hygiea, Juno Names from when they thought we were worlds Some of us are piles of rubble Held by nothing but a whisper, barely curled Sometimes one of us gets nudged And falls in toward the light And lands on you as iron and stone And you put it in a museum overnight [Bridge] Not a graveyard. Not a ruin. A beginning that was interrupted And stayed that way [Final Chorus] The planet that never happened Jupiter never let us fall in line Every time we gathered, he pulled us apart And left the pieces turning, out of time [Outro] Everything you need to make a world And four billion years of not quite