Come to the Table on a Pale Blue Dot


This is a touching song from Sidewalk Prophets.

To the thief, to the doubter

To the hero and the coward

To the prisoner and the soldier

To the young, to the older

All who hunger, all who thirst

All the last, all the first

All the paupers and the princes

All who fail you've been forgiven

All who dream, all who suffer

All who loved and lost another

All the chained, all the free

All who follow, all who lead

Anyone who's been let down

All the lost you have been found

All who've been labeled right or wrong

Everyone who hears this song.

The lyrics actually reminds me of similar thoughts from a different prespective by Carl Sagan in his book - Pale Blue Dot.

The picture in the title was taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). If you look carefully, you can see a blue dot in it, which is earth.

Look again at 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.

Although the two authors have very different angles on this, in some way, they are not that different.

music
Austin