Weird opinion: Pale Blue Dot should have been Illumination Theory.
More precisely, the subject matter was more fitting, mood wise, with the music of Illiumination Theory and there should have been a swap of lyrics.
IT lyrics are fine per se and do fit the music, but the way I see the Pale Blue Dot speech by Sagan, that is a celebration of humility, an ode to all the beautiful things we can find on this planet despite our complete cosmic irrevelance. A wonderful "we don't mean anything and that precisely is why we mean so much" speech. That speech would have been adapted way better over Illumination Theory's music, especially the last part. A relatively short song (stretched by an insane solo section) with a couple of menacing sounding verses just doesn't do it for that wonderful, amazing and awe-inspiring Sagan speech.
I don't think that is the point JP was trying to convey in the lyrics and the music. The music of Pale Blue Dot has this mystical, mysterious, almost bleak, atmosphere. That out of all the planets, this one pale blue dot, houses all life as we know it, from God Creators to Dream Destroyers, and all our troubles.
The way I hear the song is like the point of view of a Satellite, the one that took the famous picture, drifting further and further into space. While we here on Earth are searching for other life out there or in this case "Who's out there, to save us from ourselves?" The lyrics end with that question as you also are left to ponder. As the satellite continues to drift onwards along. Which the music underneath that section has a drifting kind of atmosphere and mood, with the Drums having a marching type of beat, and the chord choices involved.
But
this video does, coincidentally (and I find it, funny), have a music background that has the Illumination Theory String Section type of vibe.
I do really wish they could've kept the live intro they used. It really fits that intro.