Monty Python, Eric Idle - The Galaxy Song lyrics
[Monty Python, Eric Idle - The Galaxy Song lyrics]
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough
Just remember that you're standing on
A planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a
Second, so it's reckoned
A 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 day
In an outer spiral arm
At forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'
Our galaxy it'self contains a
Hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light
Years side to side it bulges in the middle
Sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us
It's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years
From galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one
Of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe it'self keeps on
Expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light
You know twelve million miles a minute
And that's the fastest speed there is
So remember
When you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life
Somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth!
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough
Just remember that you're standing on
A planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a
Second, so it's reckoned
A 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 day
In an outer spiral arm
At forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'
Our galaxy it'self contains a
Hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light
Years side to side it bulges in the middle
Sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us
It's just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years
From galactic central point
We go 'round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one
Of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe it'self keeps on
Expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light
You know twelve million miles a minute
And that's the fastest speed there is
So remember
When you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life
Somewhere up in space
'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth!