Pale blue dot

Capo 5th

VERSE (materialism)

C                                                      F
Some thoughts depress you - like what you had and lost

C                                                      F
Like we ever really possess anything - and even know what we are

BRIDGE
Am                                                                 C
Think of your ancestors do you even know their names?
Am                                                                 C
They've been blown away and are floating with the stars

CHORUS

F                                           G                               C

They are just specks of dust, floating on a pale blue dot
F                                           G                               C
We are a speck of dust, an insignificant pale blue dot

VERSE

Think of everyone through history - everyone who ever was
And of the lives they lived and what they did - how little we know of

BRIDGE

They lived their every moment in this tiny place
And in the universe they left no trace

CHORUS

We are just specks of dust, floating on a pale blue dot

We are a speck of dust, an insignificant pale blue dot

MIDDLE

Am

Rivers of blood spilt in triumph

C

To claim one piece or own one corner

F

Endless cruelties visited out

G

All for the glory of one tiny pixel

CHORUS
How many have died? Fighting for this pale blue dot

BRIDGE

Every creator, every destroyer of civilisations

Every hero, every coward, every king

CHORUS

They lived and they died, here upon this pale blue dot

BRIDGE

Every saint, every sinner, every son

Every inventor, every explorer, everyone

CHORUS

In the history of our species, crawled around this pale blue dot

Lived out their lives, here upon this pale blue dot

The real world

VERSE 1

C                                F

Waking up with the telephone

C                                                         Am

Need reassuring that I've not been left alone

Seeing the likes and seeking approval

Check the haters bad comment removal

F                                       G      C

I've got to get back to the real world

VERSE 2

Sitting at breakfast but I'm not really here

I'm on a server or somewhere in the stratosphere

With tweets and posts I feel connected

But no reposts so now I feel rejected

I've got to get back to the real world

MIDDLE

F                           C

Time ain't my friend

And I need something          G

And I haven't told you before

VERSE 3

Or on my newsfeed getting the gossip

It's the world I'm learning about the state of it

I pretend it's important and I'm being kept informed

But I know I'm at the mercy of the cultural norm

I've got to get back to the real world

I've got to get back to the real world

I've got to get back to the real world

You are not the voice in your head

(CAPO 3rd)

VERSE 1

G             F#/D            Em

You are not your story

You are not your memories

You are not the sum

Of all the things you've done

C                        D

You are not your desires

G                            Em

What you dislike or adore

C              F#/D        G

You are something more

VERSE 2

You are not your ideas

You are not your vision

You are not here for a reason

You're not on some special mission

You are not the voice in your head

That asks what it's all for

You are something more

VERSE 3

You are not your cravings

You are not your needs

You are not all your sankharas

All the live or dormant seeds

You are not the reactions

Of hatred or amore

You are something more

MIDDLE

Em                       G

You are the awareness

Em                          C

The watcher sitting inside

Em                  G

You are a passenger

C                     D/F#

Here along for the ride

VERSE 4

You are not your sadness

You are not your pain

You are not the suffering

Or anything in your brain 

You are not the confusion

The closed or open doors

You are something more