Transcript Dance of the Planets

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 night
And I'd ask myself could it be
right
Are there planets like ours
around faraway stars
Or are we all alone on our
planet Earth home?
Are we whirling around imperceptibly?
Caught up in the dances of gravity?
A random Galactic anomaly
Nine 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 night
Lies 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 gravity
A companion of closest proximity. A planet around a star!!!
At the edge of the Galaxy,
clusters of stars
Their members a billion years
older than ours
hold wobbles of planets
around their pulsars!
They've had eons more time than we
Is it possible, could it be?
Am I watching you, watching me?
And at the dawn of the
twenty-first century
The 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!