Lyrics - Galaxy Song by Eric Idle

WHENEVER
LIFE
GETS
YOUDOWN,
MRS.
BROWN,
ANDTHINGS
SEEM
HARD
OR
TOUGH,
AND
PEOPLE
ARE
STUPID,
OBNOXIOUS
OR
DAFT
AND
YOUFEEL
THAT
YOU'
VE
HAD
QUITEENOUGH...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving,
And revolving at 900 miles an hour,
That's orbiting at 19 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 40,000 miles an hour
Of the
Galaxy we call the
Milky
Way.
Our
Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light years side to side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our
Galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding
Universe
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know,12 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 it is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
Because there's bugger all down here on
Earth.

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