Planet · Inner System
Earth
Pale Blue Dot
Earth: the only world known to carry life, seen from six billion kilometres away as a single pale blue pixel.
What the song is built on
- The only world known to carry life
- Seven-tenths water, and the only place where it sits liquid on the surface
- A magnetic field and an atmosphere keep the solar wind off
- Seen from Voyager 1, a pale blue dot less than a pixel wide
Established astronomy. The music is an interpretation of it — see the curatorial policy.
SoundWarm folk-orchestral anthem, acoustic guitar, strings, layered group vocals like a choir of many voices, uplifting, 92 BPM, hopeful
Lyrics
[Intro]
One world, one water, one thin blue coat of air
[Verse 1]
Seven parts in ten of me is ocean
And the only place we know
Where water sits and stays and moves
Where the green things learn to grow
A field of iron spinning underfoot
Turns the solar wind aside
A sky so thin you'd drive it in an hour
And everything alive inside
[Chorus]
Pale blue dot, pale blue dot
Everything that ever happened is right here
Every river, every war, every love
On one grain of blue, held in the clear
[Verse 2]
Every language ever spoken, spoken here
Every bread that anybody broke
Every mother in the history of the world
Every word that anybody spoke
From Voyager the whole of us was small
Less than a pixel in the night
No border showed, no country and no wall
Just a mote of dust suspended in the light
[Bridge]
No one is coming to save this from us
No one is coming, and we knew
The only home we've ever had
Is this one, and it's blue
[Final Chorus]
Pale blue dot, pale blue dot
Everything that ever happened is right here
Every river, every war, every love
On one grain of blue, held in the clear
[Outro]
One world, one water, one thin blue coat of air
And everyone you've ever loved is there
What goes round Earth
Solar System — 2026 Founding Edition — one of 30 songs.