Makemake

[Intro] A name from an island Given to a world nobody can see [Verse 1] They found me at Easter, two thousand five So they went to Rapa Nui for a name Makemake, who made the people Carried out past Neptune, and the far dark claimed Methane ice across my face Bright as fresh snow in the black Three hundred five of your years to circle And nothing pulling me back [Chorus] A creator at the edge Named on an island, living past the light The god who made the first people Given a world that has never seen a night sky bright [Verse 2] No atmosphere that we can find It may freeze and fall and lift again A small dark moon was spotted in twenty sixteen Circling me since who knows when Second brightest in the Kuiper Belt After Pluto, and no closer to being known No spacecraft has ever come this way No camera, no landing, no one thrown [Bridge] The islands named their gods for making The astronomers named me for them Two kinds of people reaching for a word For the thing that starts, and doesn't end [Final Chorus] A creator at the edge Named on an island, living past the light The god who made the first people Given a world that has never seen a night sky bright [Outro] A name from an island Out here, where names are all we send