Galaxy Song
Galaxy Insights: Finding Perspective in Life's Challenges
Lyrics
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
Encouragement to think about life positively when facing challenges.
And things seem hard or tough,
Acknowledging that life can be difficult.
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
Describing people as irrational, annoying, or foolish.
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Expressing a feeling of being overwhelmed or fed up.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
Highlighting the perspective of standing on Earth, a planet in constant motion.
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
Providing facts about Earth's rotation and speed.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
Detailing Earth's orbit around the sun.
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Emphasizing the sun as the ultimate energy source.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Including the sun, stars, and humans in the context of cosmic movement.
Are moving at a million miles a day,
Highlighting the collective speed of celestial bodies.
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Specifying Earth's location in the Milky Way's outer spiral arm.
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Identifying the galaxy in which Earth resides.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
Stating the vast number of stars within the galaxy.
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
Providing dimensions of the Milky Way.
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
Describing the bulging shape of the galaxy.
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
Highlighting the width variation of the galaxy.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
Specifying Earth's distance from the Galactic Central Point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
Noting the time taken for one complete orbit of the galaxy.
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
Emphasizing the vast number of galaxies in the universe.
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Expressing awe at the vastness and expansion of the universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
Highlighting the continuous expansion of the universe.
In all of the directions it can whiz;
Emphasizing the limitless directions of universal expansion.
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Describing the maximum speed of light and its significance.
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
Encouraging reflection on the improbability of one's existence.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
Suggesting a hope for intelligent life beyond Earth.
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
Reflecting on the insignificance of human existence in the vast cosmos.
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
Expressing a wish for the existence of intelligent life elsewhere.
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
Conveying a cynical perspective on the state of affairs on Earth.
Comment