Famed Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson just wrote a new book called "Just Visiting This Planet" and it inspired me to write this song.  So I did it in the shimmering glow of 1980s melancholy.  “Just Visiting This Planet” tells the story of a lonely traveler from a distant galaxy who lands on Earth searching for belonging — only to discover he doesn’t fit in. Blending the emotional depth of The Cure, the cinematic pulse of INXS, and the defiant edge of Billy Idol, the song captures the ache of alienation and the quiet beauty of letting go.

Driven by atmospheric synths, echoing guitars, and a haunting vocal, it feels like a message from the stars — a reflection on what it means to be human, to yearn for connection, and to realize that sometimes, home isn’t a place at all.

At once cosmic and heartbreakingly intimate, “Just Visiting This Planet” is a bittersweet anthem for anyone who’s ever felt like they didn’t belong — a traveler passing through, leaving only starlight behind.

LYRICS

Silver eyes in the mirror glass
Falling stars in a world too fast
Signals fade in electric skies
No one hears my lullabies

I walk these streets of neon dreams
They look right through me what does it mean
I reach for hands that disappear
No welcome signs for strangers here

I thought I’d find a heartbeat like mine
But love’s a language lost in time I'm...

I’m just visiting this planet
Passing through your atmosphere
Looking for a reason but there’s nothing keeping me here
You say I don’t belong
Well maybe that’s true
I’m just visiting this planet
Not staying with you
You you

Midnight hum of a dying moon
Cities fade into their own cocoon
Radio ghosts on static waves
Calling out from shallow graves

I gave my heart to the human kind
They tore it down just to satisfy
A cosmic drifter skin and bone
Dreaming of a place called home

You promised light but I found stone
Now it’s time to drift alone

I’m just visiting this planet 
Passing through your atmosphere
Looking for a reason but there’s nothing keeping me here
You say I don’t belong 
Well maybe that’s true
I’m just visiting this planet 
Not staying with you
You you

Fade to black 
No contact made
Orbiting hearts just drift away
Another world
Another try
One more tear before goodbye

I’m just visiting this planet 
One light year too soon
Dreaming under your cold blue moon
You say I don’t belong 
I guess that’s true
Never from this world 
Just passing through
Passing through

Stars align then disappear
Static whispers no one hears
I’ll keep moving endless flight
A lonely spark in endless night

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Written and performed by Johnny Punish
Produced by Punish Studios

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Out of the Blue

Julian Casablancas