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Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown |
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And things seem sad or tough |
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And people are useless, or obnoxious, or daft, |
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And you feel that you’ve had quite enough... |
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Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving |
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revolving at nine-hundred miles an hour |
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and orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned, |
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a sun that is the source of all our power. |
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Now the sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see |
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Are moving a million miles a day |
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In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour |
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of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. |
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Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars, |
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it’s a hundred thousand light-years side to side, |
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it bulges in the middle, sixty thousand light-years thick, |
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but out by us it’s just three thousand light-years wide. |
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We’re thiry thousand light-years from galactic central point |
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We go ’round every two hundred million years, |
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and our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions in this |
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Amazing and Expanding Universe! |
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The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding |
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in all of the directions it can whiz, |
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as fast as it can go, the speed of light, y’know, |
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twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is, |
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So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure |
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How amazingly unlikely is your birth, |
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And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space, |
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’Cause there’s bugger-all down here on Earth. |
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