Somewhere to Land

Engines hum beneath my feet,

Another sun falls out of reach,

Silver rivers streak the glass,

A thousand worlds go flying past.

I’ve watched blue giants burn away,

Seen moons asleep in violet haze,

But every signal fades to black,

And still I fly, I can’t turn back.

There’s gotta be a sky out there

That knows the shape of me,

A little world among the stars

Where I was meant to be.

So I’ll fly, fly, fly

Through the endless night,

Past the rings of distant planets,

Past a billion dying lights.

Somewhere there’s an ocean,

Somewhere there is land,

Somewhere under foreign stars

There’s a place where I can stand.

Even if forever

Is farther than I planned,

I’ll cross the whole damn universe

For somewhere I can land.

Another system, another sun,

Another scan comes back with none,

Too cold to breathe, too hot to stay,

Another hope I leave behind today.

Nebulas bloom in red and gold,

Beautiful things I cannot hold,

And sometimes in the quiet dark

I wonder if I’ve gone too far.

But then a little star appears

Beyond the window frame,

And for a moment I believe

One world might know my name.

So I’ll fly, fly, fly

Through the endless night,

Past the rings of distant planets,

Past a billion dying lights.

Somewhere there’s an ocean,

Somewhere there is land,

Somewhere under foreign stars

There’s a place where I can stand.

Even if forever

Is farther than I planned,

I’ll cross the whole damn universe

For somewhere I can land.

Maybe it’s impossible,

A dream too far away,

A green horizon waiting

Where no map has ever named.

Maybe there’s a sunrise

No human eyes have seen,

Rain falling through alien leaves,

Mountains wrapped in green.

And maybe when I find it,

I’ll shut the engines down,

Step beneath an unknown sky

And finally touch the ground.

So I’ll fly, fly, fly

Till the stars become a sea,

Till I find that little world

That’s been waiting there for me.

I’ll pass a million planets,

I’ll chase the faintest light,

Through galaxies that never end,

Through every endless night.

And when the stars stop racing,

When the engines finally sleep,

I’ll watch the sunrise from my home

And know it was worth the search for me.

One more star…

One more sky…

One more world to pass me by.

Until one day

I finally see

A little blue-green light

Calling me home.