Sound and Vision on a Gold LP

from Burning Issues by JT Steam

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Dedicated to the two Voyager spacecraft currently hurtling away from the solar system, carrying some messages and light entertainment to alien civilisations.

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Planets visited, moons observed
Sending images to our home world
Your mission has revealed a lot
To the primitive beings on the pale blue dot

You've sailed so far, and you're so near
To the edge of the heliosphere
So please deliver from planet Earth
Our message to the universe

We threw the smallest bottle in the largest sea
With sound and vision on a gold LP
Traversing interstellar space
An eternal record of the human race

After humankind has paid the cost
And all of our wars have been fought and lost
You'll be sailing towards the constellations
Bringing peace from every nation

The smallest bottle in the largest sea
Has sound and vision on a gold LP
Traversing interstellar space
An eternal record of the human race

When we've used up our final chance
Our gift to the stars will be song and dance

When all of life on Earth has gone
Distant worlds will hear our song
On Gliese 445 they'll sing
Of Johnny B. Goode and the Rite of Spring

We threw the smallest bottle in the largest sea
With sound and vision on a gold LP
Traversing interstellar space
An eternal record of the human race

We threw the smallest bottle in the largest sea
With sound and vision on a gold LP
Traversing interstellar space
An eternal record of the human race

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from Burning Issues, released May 4, 2022

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JT Steam is an academic by day who writes nerdy folk songs by night with an ever growing collection of ukuleles.

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