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jim moray - sounds of earth lyrics

gary flandro saw it first in 1964
hidden on a printout that he hadn’t seen before
but the lab at pasadena they fed the numbers in
of a hundred possibilities, well this could be the one

there was going to be a moment when the planets were aligned
a moment in their orbits when they all came to one side
to travel like a slingshot, use the gravity to steer
another chance won’t come again before two hundrеd years

carl, he knew еxactly how a tale it should be told
how a story could be broken, how an idea could be sold
he said let’s send a message to whoever finds it first
to tell them that we come in peace, let’s send the sounds of earth

so he made a list of all the sounds, to sum up who we are
a mixtape of humanity to travel through the stars
back at the university, he gathered up his team
linda, frank and jon and timothy
and last of all there’s ann

stravinsky, bach and mozart, the 50s rock and roll
the crying of a baby and the calling of the whale
dogs and rain and laughter, and the singing of the birds
images and diagrams and maps of all the earth
they say there is a kind of spirit music in the world
that plays for all eternity as round the sun it hurls
if we could preserve it on a record made of gold
it could last a billion years or more

well ann she was so diligent, and ann she was so keen
and she searched among the archives just to find the missing piece
an out+of+print recording of an ancient chinese lute
all their hopes depending on discovering this tune

one night she phoned to call him she’d found the flowing stream
she called but found he wasn’t home so played it into his machine
says ann i’ve the missing piece, i think i’ve found our song
says carl it’s good to hear your voice, i’ve been waiting for so long

i’ve been waiting for a moment when the planets would align
waiting for the feeling, waiting for a sign
it took four hours until the sun came glistening o’er sea
and as the dawn was breaking he said annie marry me

next morning back in new york they connected the machines
attached the sensors to her skin to record her eeg
as soon as they had started, well, she knew what they should do
the sound of someone falling in love, all the time i thought of you

when the voyagers were ready to be sent upon their way
and the golden record mounted with a needle to make it play
they launched them in september from cape canaveral
the furthest man+made object, they’re out there moving still
beyond our solar system there’s a golden calling card
inscribed please don’t disturb me, let me travel to the stars
if one day someone finds it they will hear the sound of love
that could last a billion years or more

- jim moray lyrics

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