I've been out to Pluto and seen The Milky Way.
Some day I'll take you to see a meteor display.
The Martian desert's dusty red is pictured in my brain,
But still the silver moonlight sees me safely home again.
For there's just no more important place than Earth.
From sea-lapped tidal pools emerged the miracle of birth,
And from just that one life form
All of the creatures here were born.
There isn't any place more beautiful than earth.
II.
I've sped round the blazing sun in Mercury's summer wrath.
Venusian seas of tin and lead have passed beneath my path.
The filmy rings of Saturn have held me in their spell,
And Neptune and Uranus hold deep secrets I can tell.
Still, there's no place that can take the place of home.
I'll recall this aqua colored ball no matter where I roam.
I'll see her cities of steel,
And though my homesickness heal,
No other planet than the Earth can be my home.
III.
I rode on a comet's tail a million miles or so.
Descended to Jupiter where methane crystals grow.
I saw the asteroids collide in silent motion slow.
I've been so many places that there's no place left to go.
But there's just no more amazing place than Earth.
A small child cries, an old man dies, and doesn't know his worth.
Still there is no place at all,
There just is no place at all.
There isn't any place more beautiful than earth.