Pale Blue Dot (Somewhere Out There parody) — Joey Marianer on JoCo Cruise 2022
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2022-04-14

Inspired by Carl Sagan's reflections on the 'Pale Blue Dot' image (as recited by Riley on a previous JoCo Cruise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMUIDzu9_Cs) I wrote this parody of 'Somewhere Out There' from An American Tail.

Somewhere right here, upon our pale blue dot
floating in a sunbeam is everything we’ve got.
Somewhere right here, someone’s starting a war.
We’re fighting one another, over dust and not much more.
And even if we wreck our tiny home to make a mark,
no help will come; we’re just a speck against the cosmic dark.
And even though I know how very far apart we seem,
it helps to think we’re all suspended in the same sunbeam.
Somewhere right here, upon this mote of dust,
we’ll all come together, somewhere right here.
That’s home, and that’s us.

The video of this entire show is at https://youtu.be/VkpGEGRtrDs
The playlist of videos of individual poems/songs is at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0hJ1kN-7Fi7viIPXRSIJGjW
There's also a playlist of videos mentioned in the show: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0iFgLqZ5GrhBNQsT4p7EDXx

What can I say? I like playlists.