Interstellar messages from dying worlds. Title song from the album.
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Story behind the song
The Message is the story of a man that receives an interstellar message, transmitted from a dying planet that portends bad things for much of the universe including Earth. He resists, but ultimately succumbs to act on this (ala Moses or Noah). He warns and gathers people and deals with the difficulties and uncertainties of interstellar travel. And once reaching the planet, massive adaptations and transformations occur.
Lyrics
The Message
Ron Tintner 2009
V1:
Light years from the roar of Earth
In a quiet part of the universe
A barren planet sees its fate
In the rays of a dying star
V2:
Then in the dark of cosmic night
The sky explodes with caustic light
A signal meant for seeing eyes
That don't know where they are
RISE:
And from the photic aftershock
A message pulses like a clock
Through interstellar spaces
On UV EMR
CH:
Over and over
An echo, an omen
A puzzle, a cipher, a sign?
Over and over
A message is woven
All through the fabric of time
V3:
On solar waves it radiates
Toward distant worlds it gravitates
Like parchment in a bottle
Floating to the shore
V4:
We comb the sands of space and time
We sense the rhythm, seek the rhyme
And the meaning in the message
From a long departed star
RISE 2
A leap of faith, a cry of love
A futile prayer to gods above
A missive to a universe
That knows not who they are
--CHORUS--
-- BREAK, 8 bars --
RISE 3:
And from the photic aftershock
The message pulses like a clock
And after ten millennia
Goes on and on and on
-- CHORUS--