Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Visit To A Sad Planet, artist - Leonard Nimoy. Album song Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space, in the genre Поп
Date of issue: 27.04.2015
Record label: Geffen
Song language: English
A Visit To A Sad Planet |
On a routine patrol flight |
In the Milky Way Galaxy |
I discovered on our space-sensors |
An unidentified planet careening wildly |
In an eccentric solar orbit |
I ordered an immediate investigation |
And with much difficulty |
Manoeuvred our ship for a temporary orbit |
Upon beaming down to the plant’s surface |
All I could see were ruins |
Ruins of some type of civilisation |
Crumbled buildings |
Deserted streets |
Charred vegetation |
All covered with a thick layer of dust |
Which our scanners indicated as intensely radioactive |
I proceeded to make a through survey of the area |
According to my calculations |
I could tell that some recent phenomenon or holocaust had occurred |
And destroyed whatever advanced civilisation had existed on the planet |
I found no sign of life |
As I made my way back to the ship |
I heard a sound |
It came from a cellar, in one of the nearby buildings |
Carefully and slowly |
I found my way to the source |
And discovered a human being |
Or rather what once was a human being |
A scarred, disfigured man lying in the rubble |
When I questioned him |
He told me this had once been a great world |
They had abundance and plenty |
Intelligence |
Beauty |
Love |
There was enough for everyone who lived there |
But the inhabitants where never satisfied |
They wanted more |
They wanted everything |
And they started to quarrel amongst themselves |
They could not live in peace |
And they tried to destroy each other |
In doing this they destroyed everything |
Their abundance |
Their plenty |
Their own intelligence |
Their beauty |
Their Love |
He told me that |
So far as he knew |
He was the only living thing left |
But that he knew he was dying |
When I asked him the name of the planet |
He replied |
'We called it Earth' |