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That Tiny Pea, Pretty And Blue

from Armstrong's List by Gumbal

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"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong

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All aboard the wistfulness of time and space
Where God abhors a naked singularity
Floating out there
Every single person you and I have known
Locked in a ball, we’re moving, moving
We’re moving through clay
We’re moving through clay

We’ve stared and wondered all these years
Is it a turtle that we’re on?
Is it turtles all the way down, right down?

Curiosity, where were you all this while?
Where had you slunk and gone to hide?
Where have you been? You should have seen
You should have seen

Ptolemy wasn’t right
But Coper was wrong in the church’s eye
I know this much is true


The world is just a solid block of paper
As time will tell us later
Till then we all stay stuck alike

I wish there was a way to share this view
Janet, you should see this sighting too
So pretty and blue

We gathered shrubs and we began to hunt
Busting hogs with hammers blunt
All down to 1969

I wish there was a way to share this view
One hundred hours starts to feel too soon
Janet, you should see this tiny pea
So pretty and blue.

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from Armstrong's List, released August 7, 2019

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Gumbal started off as a two piece electro-acoustic act, putting out an EP in 2014 called 'A For', that has now evolved into a prog alt/grunge 4 piece.

Gumbal is from Mumbai, India.

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