Fear of a Blank Planet (song)

"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
Released2007
RecordedOctober–December 2006
Genre
Length
  • 7:28 (album version)
  • 4:18 (single version)
LabelRoadrunner 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.

  1. ^ "Guy Tkach hails the highly-collectable 'unknown' superstars of New-Prog". Record Collector, May 2008 issue, page 41. Retrieved 10 May 2008.