"Carl" lyrics

There will come soft rains in time
When you are grey and older
Not a single cloud will know
The burdens we have shouldered

Earth, if I may stand on your stage
Larger than life, and life as large as we are
Oh, this lonely light looms in the cosmic night
We fell in love and spilled our blood on the pale blue dot

Every way erodes the lines
'Til there's no good, there's only kind
Kids and killers shed their bones on this
The only home we've known

Earth, if I may stand on your stage
Larger than life, and life as large as we are
Oh, this lonely light looms in the cosmic night
We fell in love and spilled our blood on the pale blue dot

And by design, the iris of your eye
Hides the hints of amber in the artificial light
Once brilliant blue, so innocent and new
Wider than the endless night around our tiny view