Eric Idle - Galaxy Song Lyrics
Whenever life gets youDown, mrs. Brown, andThings seem hard or tough,And people are stupid,Obnoxious or daft and youFeel that you've had quiteEnough...Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,And revolving at 900 miles an hour,That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckonedA sun that is the source of all our power.The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,Are moving at a million miles a dayIn an outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hourOf the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion starsIt's 100, 000 light years side to sideIt bulges in the middle, 16, 000 light years thickBut out by us it's just 3, 000 light years wideWe're 30, 000 light years from galactic central point,We go round every 200 million yearsAnd our Galaxy is only one of millions and billionsIn this amazing and expanding UniverseAs fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.So remember when you're feeling very small and insecureHow amazingly unlikely it is your birthAnd pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,Because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
