Ceres

[Intro] They went looking for a planet in the gap And they found me first [Verse 1] January first, eighteen oh one Piazzi in Palermo, watching the dark A moving point where the maps said nothing And for fifty years I wore the planet mark Then they found another, and another after that And the word they gave me changed again Asteroid, they said, and I stayed the same Nine hundred kilometres of stone and rain [Chorus] The first thing in the gap Between the red world and the giant The biggest thing between them And the only round one, quiet and defiant [Verse 2] Dwarf planet now, since two thousand six The same year they took Pluto's name The only one inside of Neptune's orbit Carrying that title, bearing that claim Occator holds bright salt upon my floor Brine that rose and dried in the cold More fresh water sleeps in me as ice Than all your rivers hold [Bridge] Dawn came out in twenty fifteen The first ship to circle two worlds in one flight It's still up there, silent now A dead machine in orbit, out of sight [Final Chorus] The first thing in the gap Between the red world and the giant The biggest thing between them And the only round one, quiet and defiant [Outro] Planet, asteroid, dwarf Still here, whatever you call it