2025 Competition Entry:

There Is No Elsewhere by Michael Sellers

Genre

Rock

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Music and lyrics: Michael Sellers
Vocals: Michael Sellers
Guitars, synths, piano, drums, musical arrangement, & production: Sergio Aguilar

Description

This song was inspired by the Pink Floyd song “Comfortably Numb” and David Bowie’s Major Tom songs. When listening to or singing the former, I felt like I was a sailor standing at the bow of a ship, sailing into the distance, and I wanted to write a song that could hopefully give others that feeling, and Bowie inspired me to set this Space. The idea for colonization came from any number of colonizing empires past and present.

Bio

Lyrics

Woke up this morning, (least I think it was;
it’s hard to tell out here in Space)
And looked at photos of the Earth way back when
All blues and greens and a happy face
That home today is stormy grey
Hot as hell, cold as clay
Stuck inside a tin can just like “Major Tom”
We seek a new world where we can all belong

Sailing out upon “Hope of Humanity”
To places only fate would make us dare … to go
Sailing out into the great expanse
To find and build a home out in a galaxy … and know
We’re there to stay … there is no elsewhere x2

On a journey longer than our lives
Where decades form one endless year
I stare at the dark and quiet immensity
All I sense is death, somber and severe,
no safe haven near

Sailing out upon “Hope of Humanity”
To places only fear would make us dare … to go
Sailing out into the great expanse
To find and build a home out in a galaxy … and know
We’re there to stay … there is no elsewhere x2

Woke up this morning, (the stardial says it is)
And thought about my parents back on Earth
It’s sad to think that I’m as good as dead to them
I wonder about our sacrifice … and what it’s worth
Sailing out upon “Hope of Humanity”
To places only faith would make us dare … to go

Sailing out into the great expanse
To find and build a New Jerusalem … and know
We’re there to stay … there is no elsewhere

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  1. Hello Michael, I just finished enjoying “There Is No Elsewhere”- Moving song, I must say! Wonderful production work, what a wonderful talent we have in You sir! I’ve got a message songs on SoundCloud I haven’t dealt with in a long time. I really need to get back in there see what has happened! Michael, certainly you’ve been at this music business a long long time, by golly Here’s to hoping you may receive Ample and Just rewards!