Stillness and quiet Here they surround me Suddenly spying a faraway gleam Lanterns of fire How they astound me Flickering, dancing, Alive, it would seem Night will not tame you, yet I dare to name you Maker of miracles, furnace of dreams Mira, Mira, wonderful star Strange in my reckoning, fair in my sight Fortune upon you, whoever you are And lucky the seeker who glimpses your light Long have you traveled Ages on ages Leaving a shimmering path as you go Infinite places Teach me your patience Teach me to treasure what I cannot know Down through the centuries counting your mysteries Will you return again, someday? Someday Mira, Mira, lady of lightness Hidden in shadow as galaxies wheel Cast off your raiment of heavenly brightness Splendid in all that you choose to reveal Mira, Mira, wonderful star Strange in my reckoning, fair in my sight Fortune upon you, whoever you are And lucky the seeker who glimpses your light Wonderful star Wonderful star

I chase your every vision And I follow every scheme When you dial the tune I’m ready To strike up an earthly theme My watchers of the planets, My searchers of the skies You bade me stay for ninety days But the wonder struck my eyes The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there So hold the line and it's on I'll climb You'll find me everywhere 'Cause I'm a rover. As the ocean craves the moon’s face And rises toward her light I need the furnace of your sun To keep me burning bright. I’m simple in my spirit Resourceful in my quest Solving every puzzle in my path Surpassing every test. The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there So hold the line and it's on I'll climb You'll find me everywhere 'Cause I'm a rover. Set me in a high place Beyond the dust of time But save your grief, I never was Designed to make you cry Neither lost nor am I losing I have forged my way this far, I’m still here, and I’ll be rising In the light of every star The red road is a river, and the fount of truth lies there So hold the line and it's on I'll climb You'll find me everywhere 'Cause I'm a rover.

Where the desert is blown over footprints and bones And the Dune Sea moves as one Illusions will shine, my blood sings in time With the binary noonday suns There's sand in my shoes, there's nothing to lose And the past is a painful dream I try to look back, but Obi-Wan you're all I see The Coruscant lights will brighten the night Till it's more than a picture show I sit with my friends where forty-five cents Would have bought me something long ago They've got something to say, but I'm so far away Nowhere else I would rather be 'Cause you just walked on the screen And Obi-Wan you're all I see And I just want to know your story better than I've known anything before You've been twice bereaved And you're tired of grieving But Obi what are heroes for? For 23 years you've been young; you were older For 22 more, somehow, But I'll want to see you fly in space 45 years from now So among all the faithful to the Force or the Way I've been reaching out to find a friend Who knows all the lore, who's been here before And knows how all the stories end At the end of the day, they might ask me to stay And watch a trilogy or three And we'll cheer on the good guys, but Obi-Wan you're all I see And I just want to know your story better than I've known anything before You've been twice bereaved And you're tired of grieving But Obi what are heroes for? For 23 years you've been young; you were older For 22 more, somehow, But I'll want to see you fly in space 45 years from now And I just want to know your story better than I've known anything before You've been twice bereaved And you're tired of grieving But Obi what are heroes for? For 23 years you've been young; you were older For 22 more, somehow, But I'll want to see you fly in space 45 years from now I'll still want to see you fly in space 45 years from now

As rising birds on wings of white Let skyward songs in freedom fly Let sunward voices echo bright From emerald hills and mountains high Alderaan, world of peace and plenty Alderaan, your waters shine by morning light But in the night They hold a hundred million stars Alderaan, jewel of hope unending Alderaan, I know your face from far away And come what may It lives forever in my heart Alderaan World of peace and plenty Alderaan Jewel of hope unending Alderaan World of peace and plenty Alderaan Jewel of hope unending

What if... In another galaxy we met an octopus Now wouldn't that be just Out of this world? With her eyes and arms and brain all so mysterious Would we be curious About her world? Oh, what a wonder to be shown A wisdom that is different from our own. What if... In another galaxy we met a pod of whales In passing as we sailed To brand new worlds? Would they ask us for a story, would we be regaled With songs and tales Brought from their world? Oh, what a wonder to be shown The ways of exploration not our own. What if... In another galaxy, we heard orangutans Who spoke on secret bands Beyond our world? Would we fly, or would we fight, or would we share our plans And grow to understand Each other's worlds? Oh, what a wonder to be shown A language both unlike and like our own. What if... In another galaxy we met a raven, And found him playing With the marble of our world? Would we ever guess at what his eyes were saying? Dark matter weighing On the questions of our world What if answers came from life outside the door And then one day we couldn't hear them anymore? If only there had been more time to know There was intelligence somewhere beyond our own.

Jupiter stands like a sentinel under a searchlight Venus is reaching her arms in the gulf of the night to baptize the shadow the fallow moon keeps in her cradle wrapped in her mantle of light While down on the earth there is silence in spaces between us distance outreaching the lonely expanse of the stars thinking if only our fingertips touched in the darkness maybe the world could be ours But if you looked From not so very far away Suddenly every star we can name Would fit in the pin-light That sits in the frame of your eye And we are as small as a universe Born in a burst of "I've known you before" Aren't you the heat I have carried So long in my core? And we are the dust from the first dawn Made of the same flames we wish upon Traveling longer than eons All to be standing here Scattering starlight the moment we meet in the darkness Burning out loud with the blossoming heat of the sun Waking a world that awaited the spark of creation Waited love's will to be done Here there is nothing but trembling starlight between us, Reaching unseen from the heart of my heart into yours And all we have been will be wakened again, and remembered Wondrous and tender Brighter and stronger than before.