Story Behind The Song

Inspired by reading Stephen Baxter's incredible Destiny's Children saga.

Song Description

Are we really alone in the universe?

Lyrics

On the inner ring of the arm of orion/just a speck in the universe just an ion/ in the grand scheme of things/ life is just a dream/insignificant
magnificently bling/a gaudy diamond ring on a cheap hookers finger/intergalactic planetary dead ring a dead man's chest/a blind god's jest/the scale of it all appalls and causes distress/to the best of the slackers/the worst of the sleaze/i'm eatin my crackers with that space age cheese spread/messin with my head this is a nuclear sandwich/my brain goes boom blowin straight of the planet/black hole singularity finally got me/now i'm floatin in the stars like some cosmic debris/ castaway in the deep dark depths of space/the stars hold my soul in their cold embrace

HOOK

Lost in the stars
A bug in a jar
Motes in a remote joke is all we are
Floatin in the sky
Hopin when we die
Somebody out there has a rope and knows why

Just one star among somethin like a billion/I'd like to hitch a ride like arthur dent and trillian/get lost in the delta quadrant with seven of nine/in that skin tight one piece suit she's so fine/I'm Rhyming my way across manifold space/Like Malenfant representin the human race/Learnin from the universe - universtiy of life/unravelling the secrets travelling light/I seen the sights all around our own big milky way/all the way from perseus to Sagittarius A/I ain't seen nobody we seem to be alone/the fermi paradox got me boxin my dome/Is this the only home of intelligent life in the sky?/If it ain't then you gotta ask yourself the big why/ 93 billion light years from side to side/if the aliens are out there where the hell do they hide?