The Oort Cloud

[Intro] Nobody has seen me And yet you know I'm here [Verse 1] A shell around the whole of everything A trillion pieces, maybe more So far out the Sun is just a star One among the others, nothing more Two thousand times past Neptune at my nearest A quarter of the way to the next sun at my far I am the border of this family And nothing here has ever seen a car, a face, a scar [Chorus] The edge we have never seen Known only by the things I send Long comets falling toward your summer With tails that say: there is more, and it does not end [Verse 2] A passing star can lean on me And tip one loose without a sound Then a hundred thousand years of falling Before it lights your sky and turns around Voyager One has been flying forty years And will not reach my inner edge For three hundred more, then thirty thousand through Before it clears my ledge [Bridge] We drew you on the maps as a dotted line A guess with numbers on it The honest kind of knowing The kind that says: probably, and we're on it [Final Chorus] The edge we have never seen Known only by the things I send Long comets falling toward your summer With tails that say: there is more, and it does not end [Outro] Nobody has seen me Not yet