The Receiving End Of Sirens – Pale Blue Dot

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I watched my guilt blossom before me
Like a tender shoot
With thirsty roots
Oh, how my garden grows
The shameful seeds I've sown
I watched its stems sprawl above me
Its dark shadow cast its cloud around me
But I can live with it
I'll live in it

There's no place like home

Stretch your arms around me
Cast your cloud above me
Curtained, kept, and covered in
Your solemn vow,
"Ever you go, I'll follow."
Grow your roots within me
Drink of me you thirsty seed
I cower, cringe, and tremble at
Your solemn vow,
"Ever you go, I'll follow you."

There's no place like home

There's no place like home
(I can learn to live with this)
There's no place like home
(If I can learn to live in it)

Heavied, we're so heavy
If she only knew just how sorry I was
(Heavied, we're so heavy)
If she only knows...

Sticks and stones won't break my bones
It's the branches and boulders I shoulder
Stick and stones won't break my bones
I can live with it
If I can learn to live with this
If I can learn to live

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    My Opinion:This song is incredible, along with the rest of the album. And I'm honestly sad that it didn't get more recognition. But this song man. It gives me shivers every time I listen to it.
    What really blows me away every time is the passion in his voice. I know that he feels what he means and that he truly believes it. It's something you don't find in today's music. And as for the actual musical aspect to the song, well, that speaks for itself.
    Flag iheartnateon September 10, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:Pale Blue dot was a picture taken long ago of space and in the photo earth is barely visible, it is a tiny spec it makes you realise that all of mans achievements, every government, every war , every economic and natural disaster amounts to nothing in the grand scheme of things and when mankind is gone (if i had to guess i would say 350 years tops) it will be like we never existed we are a spec of dust on the universe so when you wonder about a descion remember it doesn't matter, nothing anyone has done matters. Just be grateful we exist mankind is a mistake by the universe made possible by millions of random odds. soon earth will be moving away from the centre of the universe (where the big bang occurred) at the speed of light that is how big the universe is and how much bigger it gets. I believe in something after death , im certainly not religious but i used to think that anything after death is impossible but life is impossible and everything is impossible because it needs a cause, nothing can come from nothing which it must have because here you are at you computer. The only thing that we can assume is impossible is 'nothingness' its too hard to explain but im an intelligent kid and i believe in life after death so dont feel too bad about death. Wow i got sidetracked.
    Flag theearthsingsmifamion April 17, 2011   Link
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    My Opinion:One of the best album exits I have ever heard, to one of my favourite albums ever (speaking as someone who's not even a fan of the genre...).

    Indeed, this album draws connections between Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot and the theme of the album as a whole (derived from Johannes Kepler's Harmonices Mundi), with the ending of the song sounding much like a zooming-out scene of the solar system...
    Flag Fade 2 blackon August 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:This might just be my favorite song of all time. I always think of it as the finale to TREOS as a whole, being the final song of their final album.
    Flag theboohion April 04, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It's so unusual how some of these lyrics are just downright depressing, while some of them offer so much hope (especially for Christians). TREOS was freakin amazing.

    I think many of the lyrics focus on the struggles and hardships for the follower of God in this life. He is obviously fed up with his struggle with sin, ashamed of his failures, and greatly longs for his true home. The evil of this world and the heavy hardship he continually endures even cause him to almost apologize to his daughter for bringing her into such an empty place.

    I just love the passion and longing in his voice when he sings "There's no place like home". It sounds like a man who knows he doesn't ultimately belong in this world and has his true home in heaven. It's a man who is sick and tired of an empty and temporary world.
    The yearning and hope for Heaven just makes my spine tingle whenever I hear this song. I think the writer is expressing his disgust and repulsion for this world, but also expressing his faith and anticipation for Heaven. (Seriously, if people really think this world is it, I don't know how they wake up in the morning)
    Again, I think this song (and tons of other TREOS songs) makes sense and means SO much more to a Christian who shares the band's Biblical beliefs. Oh the wonderful faithfulness of God!
    Flag Music4aNurseon December 09, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:This entire album has meant a lot to me, and at one point I dedicated a lot of time in my day, thinking about some of the concepts in the album (by coincidence, the album didnt provoke these thoughts.) Lately, Ive had other things on my mind that I can relate to the album and especially this song.

    What I really love about certain concept albums, is how they follow a certain story, but that it can be applied (and not even liberally) in many different ways. For example, I take "Pale Blue Dot" in a different way than most of the people here. I look at it, as telling the listener that theres more to this world than guilt and shame. And that trapping yourself in this dark place only serves to make your existence meaningless. We are a pale blue dot, in an endless obsidian sky, and yet every day we worry about what new shoes we want to buy, or if 7-11 is open at 1AM. There is so much more out there.

    Another topic I feel the album as a whole touches on, is that of all the misery in the world. Our world, is filled with pain and misery in many different, yet very similar ways. It hurts me (and I figure the band) to watch innocents killed, animals brutalized and children left in dumpsters. As a whole we need to better ourselves, before there is nothing left.


    My two cents.
    Flag sackynuton April 16, 2008   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:"Heavied, we're so heavy" and "The shameful seeds I've sown"....from the song "The Salesman, The Husband, The Lover"


    "If she only knew just how sorry I was" is from the song "Stay small"
    Flag staceykinson March 05, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:great song
    Flag staceykinson February 27, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:On their "Mi Fa Mi" Behind the Record website, Brendan explained that this song has lines from every song on the album subliminally sang within the song. I believe them to be at the 3:15'ish mark. It's very very faint and with overdrive over it in the background. Can anybody make it out? My guess as to what they are, are the highlighted lines in the lyric booklet. but yeah, i don't know....
    Flag gregxthoron January 03, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:there not their...that bothered me
    Flag JTrain12on August 28, 2007   Link

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