Children of the Stars.mp3
moderately slow blues rock
The Nerp Flerps are a concept based on the human reality, strong on the interpersonal, low on scapegoats.
Story behind the song
We're so caught up in day to day affairs that we lose sight of humanity's predicament. We've been too successful in dominating this planet to the point where we are depleting it of it's resources that in turn support life on it. If this trend continues, in about a century those who are alive then will be close to extinction. We have to begin thinking of ways to colonize other planets and solar systems beyond ours or, face extinction as a species.
Lyrics
Children of the Stars
Change is always moving fast before another change
Time just like a river flows but where to no one knows
Life concerns itself with life while it still lives
I know you know these things
And what I really mean
But I just have to let you know
You may refuse to hear
Not your decision though
It’s made for you so long ago
Ten thousand years have passed
We’re on the brink at last
No longer blind we crawl
We figured out the truth
But we expect the youth
To make decisions we refuse
(Stephen Hawking’s Voice)
“Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space. The answers to these big questions show that we have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space. That is why I am in favor of manned — or should I say, personed — space flight.”
You know you know these things
And what the future brings
But I don’t want to let it go
It may take many years
How long is not that clear
We shouldn’t wait because of fear
(Pause)
Earth has been so good to us
It made us strong and fruitful
Showed us how to fly
Now we have to find another home
We must travel to the stars
And claim our place among them
As Children of the Stars
Mother Earth decided that for us
That was Her intention from the start
