Eric Idle - Galaxy Song lyrics

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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 />

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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.