Earth That Was (Star One)

Mother Earth couldn't take no more sucked dry by humanity in the end she lost a fight she was never going to win we set out for distant shores far across our galaxy we're taking flight into the night to the planets on the rim a fire in the darkness far away from the Earth that Was a quest for freedom in the "Verse seeking refuge from the earth a fire in the darkness a bright light on the edge of space a desperate need to find our place in the emptiness of space out here on the fringe of space the outskirts of society we're suffering the aftermath of a cataclysmic war cast out by the human race nine outlaw pioneers making life in the outer worlds running from the law I see a fire in the darkness a ray of hope in a black forbidding night I see a fire in the darkness a spark of life in a cold and empty sky