WHENEVER LIFE GETS YOU<br />
DOWN, MRS. BROWN, AND<br />
THINGS SEEM HARD OR TOUGH,<br />
AND PEOPLE ARE STUPID,<br />
OBNOXIOUS OR DAFT AND YOU<br />
FEEL THAT YOU'VE HAD QUITE<br />
ENOUGH...<br />
<br />
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,<br />
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,<br />
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned<br />
A sun that is the source of all our power.<br />
<br />
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,<br />
Are moving at a million miles a day<br />
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour<br />
Of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way.<br />
<br />
Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars<br />
It's 100,000 light years side to side<br />
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick<br />
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide<br />
<br />
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,<br />
We go round every 200 million years<br />
And our Galaxy is only one of millions and billions<br />
In this amazing and expanding Universe<br />
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,<br />
12 million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.<br />
<br />
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure<br />
How amazingly unlikely it is your birth<br />
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,<br />
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth.