Shoemaker

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Now you've been tucked in For eternal ...: The song is dedicated to Eugene Shoemaker, an American geologist, who is the first and the only man buried on the Moon

earthrise: Apart from the standard meaning of the word, "Earthrise" is also the name popularly given to a well-known NASA image, taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon. Nature photographer Galen Rowell declared it "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

“And when he shall die Take him and cut him out in...: This is the quotation Shoemaker's urn was inscribed with.

The narrator here is Johanna Kurkela, a Finnish singer and Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen's wife.

Laudato si: Reference to Laudato si' (Praise Be to You), the second encyclical of Pope Francis. The encyclical has the subtitle "on care for our common home". In it, the pope critiques consumerism and irresponsible development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take "swift and unified global action.".

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato_si%27