dance of the planets. when i was a child i tuned in to a beautiful fantasy
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Dance of the Planets
When I was a child I tuned in to a beautiful fantasy
Humans and Vulcans at peace, in the cosmic community
I'd look up to the sky at nightAnd I'd ask myself could it be rightAre there planets like ours around faraway starsOr are we all alone on our planet Earth home?
Are we whirling around imperceptibly?Caught up in the dances of gravity?A random Galactic anomalyNine planets around the Sun
Spinning and swirling, twirling and whirling around the Sun
Time marches on and astronomers hone their technology
Point their scopes to the sky with an eye to unraveling the mystery
And like the faintest of calls in the nightLies a signal within a star's light!
Like a beacon of hope in your burnt umber sky…the rising of 51 Pegasi
Dancing almost imperceptibly. Backward and forward from gravityA companion of closest proximity. A planet around a star!!!
At the edge of the Galaxy, clusters of starsTheir members a billion years older than ours
hold wobbles of planets around their pulsars!
They've had eons more time than weIs it possible, could it be?
Am I watching you, watching me?
And at the dawn of the twenty-first centuryThe dream has become a reality.
We're not quite as alone as we used to be:there are planets around the stars.Planets around the stars!
Spinning and swirling, twirling and whirling
Backward and forward, they're coming and going
Daytime and nighttime, summer and winter Around the stars
We've finally found them, there's planets around them
Around the stars!