Tiny Blue Dot (song) is a song sung by Carrot, Celery, Jet, Sean, and Sydney in the episode Tiny Blue Dot.
Lyrics[]
Carrot and Celery:
Tiny blue dot
So lonely in the dark
From way out here, you never know
How beautiful and varied, and grand it is
How many creatures call it home
Celery:
Shiny blue dot, lost in the universe
So easy just to pass it by
But, oh, you Earthies know how sweet it is
Carrot and Celery:
How precious right beneath your feet it is
There’s nowhere else you all could live but this
The only home you’ve known
Jet:
When you’re floating over Earth, and you see it from above
Jet, Sean, and Sydney:
It takes your breath away, this planet that we love
Only looking down like this, can we seek our task so clear
That we should be the guardians of all that we hold dear
Jet, Carrot, and Celery:
Sweet blue spaceship, gleaming in the sun
The only home you’ve ever known
All:
Tiny blue dot, what a gorgeous little spot
Our planet, our spaceship, our home
Trivia[]
- This song was released on the Solar System Songs album on July 19, 2016, one month prior to the television premiere of Tiny Blue Dot.
- Some inspiration from this episode and the song comes from Craig Bartlett's experiences:
Craig Bartlett: I wanted to make a space show for years. More than a decade ago, I worked on a project for NASA called the Shuttle Launch Experience. It was at the Visitors Centers out at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, where they used to launch shuttles. I was the Media Editor of that project. We knew our audience would be waiting in line in the Florida heat, on this long kind of gantry that goes up and into the experience. So we made this pre-show that was 26 astronauts being interviewed. Every one of the astronauts told me the same thing about looking back at the Earth from space. They said, ‘You can’t forget it. It’s a life changing experience. You’ll never look at the Earth the same again. It’s incredibly beautiful, you realize instantly that there are no borders, it’s just one blue spaceship, you know, and that we should take care of it.
- In the Season 2 episodes Zerk Visits Earth and Water, Water Everywhere, Sean tries to sing this song but gets interrupted.
- Celery sings this song to the kids in One Small Step.