Dance of the Planets. When I was a child I tuned in to a beautiful fantasy.
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Dance of the Planets
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When I was a child I tuned in to a beautiful fantasy
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Humans and Vulcans at peace, in the cosmic community
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I'd look up to the sky at nightAnd I'd ask myself could it be rightAre there planets like ours around faraway starsOr are we all alone on our planet Earth home?
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Are we whirling around imperceptibly?Caught up in the dances of gravity?A random Galactic anomalyNine planets around the Sun
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Spinning and swirling, twirling and whirling around the Sun
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Time marches on and astronomers hone their technology
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Point their scopes to the sky with an eye to unraveling the mystery
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And like the faintest of calls in the nightLies a signal within a star's light!
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Like a beacon of hope in your burnt umber sky…the rising of 51 Pegasi
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Dancing almost imperceptibly. Backward and forward from gravityA companion of closest proximity. A planet around a star!!!
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At the edge of the Galaxy, clusters of starsTheir members a billion years older than ours
hold wobbles of planets around their pulsars!
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They've had eons more time than weIs it possible, could it be?
Am I watching you, watching me?
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And at the dawn of the twenty-first centuryThe dream has become a reality.
We're not quite as alone as we used to be:there are planets around the stars.Planets around the stars!
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Spinning and swirling, twirling and whirling
Backward and forward, they're coming and going
Daytime and nighttime, summer and winter Around the stars
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We've finally found them, there's planets around them
Around the stars!
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