At the very limit of our most powerful instruments Galaxies still are flung across space Themselves as numerous as stars in the night sky But when we look this deeply into space We are looking at a ghostly image of a distant past For the light by which we see these regions Started traveling towards us long before the dawn of life In all of time, on all the planets of all the galaxies in space Our civilizations have risen, looked into the night Seen what we see, asked the questions that we ask In all of time, on all the planets of all the galaxies in space Our civilizations have risen, looked into the night Seen what we see, asked the questions that we ask At the very limit of our most powerful instruments Galaxies still are flung across space Themselves as numerous as stars in the night sky But when we look this deeply into space We are looking at a ghostly image of a distant past For the light by which we see these regions Started traveling towards us long before the dawn of life on Earth