Fear of a Blank Planet (song)

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"Fear of a Blank Planet"
Cover of the Roadrunner Records promo single.
Promotional single by Porcupine Tree
from the album Fear of a Blank Planet
Released	2007
Recorded	October–December 2006
Genre	Progressive rock progressive metal
Length	7:28 (album version) 4:18 (single version)
Label	Roadrunner Records
Songwriter(s)	Steven Wilson
Porcupine Tree singles chronology
"Lazarus" (2005) "Fear of a Blank Planet" (2007) "Way Out of Here" (2007)

"Fear of a Blank Planet" is a Porcupine Tree song released in 2007. It appears as the first track on the album of the same name.

A promotional single of the song was released in Europe and the United States, by respective record labels. Both promos contain an edited version of "Fear of a Blank Planet" with the swearing removed.^[1] The lyrics deal with two common neurobehavioural developmental disorders for teenagers in the 21st century: bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder.