Nineteen seventy-seven, they threw a bottle at the dark Golden record in its ribs, a heartbeat and a lark It crossed the termination shock and never made a sound Of complaint — just kept its instruments and held its heading down [Chorus] And Voyager never looked back — that's the whole technique Past Jupiter, past Saturn, past the point of growing weak The mission brief was simple and it's simple on this track: Whatever's at your shoulder — never look back [Verse 2] Forty-nine years out and still transmitting on a watt The signal fainter every year but never fully lost I've got more power in my legs than it has left to spend And the same instruction from the launch: continue to the end [Chorus] And Voyager never looked back — that's the whole technique Past Jupiter, past Saturn, past the point of growing weak [Verse 3] Just once it turned the camera, six billion k from shore And caught the whole of everything inside a smudge of blur — Every race that's ever run, run on that mote of dust One look back to prove the point, then onward, as it must [Bridge - spoken, radio-crackle delivery] This is the runner. Still transmitting. Systems nominal. Heading unchanged. Interstellar space achieved one stride at a time.
