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dear pluto - the amoeba people lyrics

dear pluto
how are you?
i’m writing because you’ve been the source
of some controversy here on earth
and i’d like to re-ssure you
that no matter how you’re categorized
you’re still our favorite object in the night sky

dear pluto
but how did it come to this?
let’s go back . .
to the beginning

once upon a time back in 1930
with a pioneering spirit unwaveringly st-rdy
clyde tombaugh discovered you
a faint little speck beyond neptune
your name was selected by a little girl
for the roman god of the underworld
you were called the ninth planet and everyone was smitten
if the sun were a mama cat you were its smallest kitten
but all of the while you acted quite strange
from time to time your orbit would change
you’d take a short cut across neptune’s orbit
the clearest pictures that we had were badly distorted
years p-ssed by and technology progressed
with high-powered telescopes they put you to the test
soon it was clear that the astrophysicists
found some things that they could not dismiss
they learned you’re in a place called the kuiper belt
and if you were closer to the sun then you’d probably melt
and to top it all off there was something new
there was an object farther out that was bigger than you
they found much more and they couldn’t ignore it
so they had to make a new category for it
you’re now called a dwarf in this new category
and supposedly that’s not meant to be derogatory
change is something we cannot avoid
but you’ll always be our favorite planetoid

dear pluto

goodbye to a categorical designation
is not farewell to a friend
you’ll always matter
dear pluto

dear pluto

- the amoeba people lyrics

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