the whole damn human race

Original Song Lyrics by Susan Woodhead
…a song to celebrate 50 years of Voyager I in 2027…

V1
There’s a small but silent traveller, In the deep vacuum of space,
Sent there on a mission, In the years of the old space race,
She left to seek the planets, She left our earth’s embrace
She’s now out in the universe, Where time has its own pace.

‍Chorus
Just like a lunar landing, Or a spaceship out to Mars,
Voyager’s in deep space, There’s a Black Hole ‘tween the stars,
A solar flare in the daylight, A slingshot around the moon,
We’re a drop in a distant ocean, And time plays its own tune.

V2
Long after our sun has faded, Long after the stars are gone,
When memories are the story, When silence, the only song,
Compressed in the dust of dreamscapes, Much deeper than history,
Outliving even the stars themselves, This piece of humanity.

Chorus

Bridge
Now out there on the boundary, Of interstellar space,
Look back between the stars and see, The whole damn human race,
Every hope and every dream we’ve had, On that distant pale blue dot,
Every thought, ev’ry deep-held memory, That pixel holds the lot.

Chorus

Outro
Greater than imagination, Deeper than history,
In the dust of time she’ll remember, What we can’t even see,
Greater than imagination, Deeper than history,
In the dust of time she’ll remember, What we can’t even see,
What we can’t even see, What we can’t even see.