The Lemonheads - My Hero, Zero lyrics

Zero?
Yeah, zero is a wonderful thing in fact
Zero is my hero! How can zero be a hero?
Well, there are all kinds of heroes
You know a man can get to be
A hero for a famous battle
He fought or by studying very hard
And becoming a weightless astronaut wow
And then there are heroes of other sorts
Like the heroes we know from watching sports
Oh but a hero doesn't have to
Be a grown up person
You know a hero can be a very big dog
Who comes to your rescue or a very little
Boy who’s smart enough to know what to do but
Let me tell you about my favorite hero

My hero, Zero, such a funny little hero
But 'til you came along
We counted on our fingers and toes
Now, you're here to stay
And nobody really knows
How wonderful you are
Why we could never reach a star
Without you, Zero, my hero
How wonderful you are

What’s so wonderful about a
Zero? It's nothing, isn't it?
Sure, it represents nothing alone

But place a zero after one
And you've got yourself a ten
See how important that is?
When you run out of digit's
You can start all over again
See how convenient that is?
That's why with only ten
Digit's including zero
You can count as high as you could ever go
Forever, towards infinity
No one ever gets there, but you could try

Ten billion zeros
From the cavemen to the weirdos
Who invented you
They counted on their fingers and toes
Or maybe some sticks and stones
(rocks and bones) their neighbors' toes?

Yeah, yeah, and nobody really knows
How wonderful you are
Why we could never reach the star
Without you, Zero, my hero, Zero
How wonderful you are

Place one zero after any number
And you've multiplied that number by ten
See how easy that is?
Place two zeros after any number
And you've multiplied that number
By one hundred see how simple that is?
Place three zeros after any number
And you’ve multiplied that number
By one thousand

Et cetera, et cetera, ad infinitum
Ad astra, forever and ever
With Zero, my hero, how wonderful you are