When the travelers get to the planet they are grateful to have made it alive - but not all is peachy keen...
Story behind the song
The Message is the story of a man that receives an interstellar message, transmitted from a dying planet that portends bad things for much of the universe including Earth. He resists, but ultimately succumbs to act on this (ala Moses or Noah). He warns and gathers people and deals with the difficulties and uncertainties of interstellar travel. And once reaching the planet, massive adaptations and transformations occur.
Lyrics
We Finally Arrived
W&M Ron Tintner
We finally arrived
And that's really great
But I don't know that we should celebrate... too much
We really survived
But it's not the end
Our journey's only just begun, it's time to start again
This planet may be livable but it sure as hell's no Eden
We've got to find a way to make it work
'Cause we sure as hell can't leave
Yes we arrived.
But we just began
to realize the years ahead will be worse than we imagined
The air is thin, the soil is bare
The water's mostly ice
And the creatures living down below
Are prob'ly not too nice
But we have arrived ... we finally arrived... barely alive
But we finally arrived
Begin again.. Begin again.. Begin again
Start over, move on
Instrumental
Begin again.. Begin again.. Begin again
Start over, move on... move on