Automated Uprising - The Only Home We've Ever Known Lyrics

From this distant vantage point
The Earth might not seem of any particular interest
But for us it's different
Consider again that dot
That's here. That's home. That's us
On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of
Every human being who ever was, lived out their lives
The aggregate of our joy and suffering
Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines
Every hunter and forager
Every hero and coward
Every creator and destroyer of civilization
Every king and peasant
Every young couple in love
Every mother and father
Hopeful child
Inventor and explorer
Every teacher of morals
Every corrupt politician
Every"superstar
Every"supreme leader
Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there
On a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors
So that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner
How frequent their misunderstandings
How eager they are to kill one another
How fervent their hatreds
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance
The delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, Are challenged by this point of pale light
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark
In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will Come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life
There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate
Visit, yes. Settle, not yet
Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot
The only home we've ever known