Dwarf planet · Kuiper Belt
Haumea
Four Hours
Haumea: spun into an egg shape by a four-hour day, with a ring and two small moons.
What the song is built on
- Spun into an egg shape by a four-hour day
- One of the fastest-spinning large bodies known
- It has a ring, and two small moons
- Named for a Hawaiian goddess of childbirth
Established astronomy. The music is an interpretation of it — see the curatorial policy.
SoundFast cyclical electronic, spinning arpeggio loops, polyrhythmic percussion, chanting layered vocals, 132 BPM, hypnotic and relentless
Lyrics
[Intro]
Four hours. One whole day. Again.
[Verse 1]
Spinning so fast I'm not a sphere
Stretched into an egg by my own speed
Two thousand kilometres one way
Half of that the other way I lead
Something hit me long ago
And set me turning like a thrown stone
My ice flew off and became my moons
Hi'iaka and Namaka, not alone
[Chorus]
Four hours, four hours
One of the fastest big things ever found
Four hours, four hours
The day that won't let me settle down
[Verse 2]
A ring around me, thin and dark
Found in twenty seventeen by a star's light going out
The first ring ever seen this far from home
On a world nobody talks about
Named for the goddess of Hawaiian birth
My moons for her daughters, made of ice
A family shattered into orbit
Still circling, paying the price
[Bridge]
Everything out here is slow
Everything out here is cold
And I am spinning like a coin on a table
Refusing to be still, refusing to be old
[Final Chorus]
Four hours, four hours
One of the fastest big things ever found
Four hours, four hours
The day that won't let me settle down
[Outro]
Four hours. One whole day.
Again. Again.
Solar System — 2026 Founding Edition — one of 30 songs.