"Planet Earth" as written by James Dearness Hogarth, Sacha Skarbek and James Blount....
Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain
I heard you making patterns rhyme
Like some new romantic looking for the TV sound
You'll see I'm right some other time
Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is planet earth you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
My head is stuck on something precious, let me know
If you're coming down to land
Is there anybody out there trying to get through?
My eyes are so cloudy I can't see you
Look now, look all around
There's no sign of life
Voices, another sound
Can you hear me now?
This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
Look now, look all around
There's no sign of life
Voices, another sound
Can you hear me now?
This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop calling planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
I heard you making patterns rhyme
Like some new romantic looking for the TV sound
You'll see I'm right some other time
Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is planet earth you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
My head is stuck on something precious, let me know
If you're coming down to land
Is there anybody out there trying to get through?
My eyes are so cloudy I can't see you
Look now, look all around
There's no sign of life
Voices, another sound
Can you hear me now?
This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
Look now, look all around
There's no sign of life
Voices, another sound
Can you hear me now?
This is planet earth, you're looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop calling planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop looking at planet earth
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
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Only came outside to watch the night fall with the rain: Radio telescopes used in SETI research do not require a clear sky and can be used in rainy weather.
I heard you're making patterns rhyme: Using pattern recognition to identify alien radio transmissions.
Like some new romantic looking for the tv sound: Unable to decrypt an alien signal just yet, but...
You'll see I'm right some other time: Given enough time, an alien signal will be identified.
The remaining lyrics are pretty self explanatory...
;-)
*sings*
bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop this is planet earth
"There's no sign of life," maybe he was the only survivor after a nuclear war.
"my eyes are so cloudy i can't see you" it's probably the smoke from the bombs.
"Is there anybody out there trying to get through?"
He's alone waiting to see if someone will come to possibly create life all over again, it's very hopeful.
"Only came outside to watch the nightfall with the rain"--This is the most Freudian of all lines in the song. "Came outside" is the crudest form of contraception that doesn't involve bloodletting...it's pulling out. The "rain" could be the spilling of one's seed and the "nightfall" could be the fact that the interaction could be happening at night or just in the dark.
"Making patterns rhyme" could be the rhythm of bodies in lovemaking.
"You'll see I'm right some other time" could be the speaker's conviction that it's best for both him and his partner not to conceive at this time in their lives.
"There's no sign of life"--There's no conception, no new life to be born from the mother.
"Another sound"--Ultrasound. Enough said.
"This is Planet Earth"--This is the way "adult" humans act in the real world: they make love, then move on.
"My head is stuck on something precious"--His "head" (manhood) is probing the partner's virginity.
"If you're coming down to land"--Is the partner going to climax?
"Is there anybody out there trying to get through"--Is his partner with child; does she have "someone to come through" the birth canal in time?
"My eyes so cloudy I can't see you"--A male's sexual organ has an eye (opening); the discharge is cloudy. Not sure what the "seeing" is, but it might simply be that the speaker does not know if his partner has conceived.
Good songs are written for a variety of interpretations; there may well be more than one meaning one takes. I like the nuclear apocalypse and outer space ideas mentioned also here. I think on the whole, though, that this song's lyrics have some sexual overtones that cannot be ignored.