Music

Pluto

drumkit - gerald dowd
bass guitar and vocal - mike fredrickson
electric guitar and vocal - robbie fulks
keyboards - chris neville

Found not to be the biggest object in its neighborhood, poor little Pluto was cast off in 2006 and made into a "dwarf planet." Sentimental pop-song treatments of astronomical news are all too rare, and rarer still is any conceivable use for the "Tuvan monk" patch on Chris Neville's computer keyboard, so please treasure this song.

Lyrics

Lonely you a minor planet
Minor me a lonely man
Spinning in celestial orbit
Brother Trans-Neptunian
Dwarf they label you
Me, I beg to disagree
King of the Kuiper Belt
Sphere of noble mystery

Late you came unto us
Borne on a solar wind
Charon, a moon your equal
Nix and Hydra, distant twins
Since the second grade
Nine is the number I recall
Without you, my friend
Our solar system feels small

So sad to see you go
I won’t forget you, Pluto

Named to deify you
Sure to be misunderstood
Mass enough to spherify you
Not to clear the neighborhood
In all the Milky Way
Is there nowhere you belong?
Drifting in empty space
Lost and lonely as a song

(Spoken)
Maybe you never were one of us. "Eccentric," they said, "too far out...just an old chunk of rock and ice." Well, I guess it’s time to give you a number and send you on your way. Oh, but some of us will never forget...

So sad to see you go
I won’t forget you, Pluto

Guitar Chords/Tab

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