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Strange and Beautiful
lyrics 6/18/02 music 7/5/02Story
Cheryl Wheeler's "Orbiting Jupiter" got me thinking about the various space probes and what they see, or more to the point, how they perceive.
Lyrics
(bm) Eyes that see (b/A) beyond our light(G) Senses we don’t (C) know
(D) There are sounds in the (Dmaj7) darkness
and a (em) voice that (A) speaks so
(D) Strange And (Dmaj7b5) Beautiful
We are (em) only (em7) given a (A) glimpse
(bm) Mysteries (b/A) are (G) spoken (Gmaj7) in
A (em) language we did not (A) invent
Space is full of waves
Every star is a song
Who do they sing for
And what do they say so
(chorus)
With elegant compression
We made them to report
We interpret the transmissions
From every foreign port so
(chorus)
The voices beyond hearing
Speak in a moment
We take years to hear the words
That make images so
(chorus)
Wonders we never imagined
Histories grand and frightening
Worlds shattered and pure
Is this a song that angels sing so
(chorus)
We feel the gaze of faces
No eye can ever see
Hiding in the missing pieces
Making sound in the darkness so
(chorus)
There is (B) language in the (E) noise
And (A) music in the (D) language
(E) Light is a kind of (A) sound
(D) And all things that (E) are, are (A) lights
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