Whenever life
gets you down
Missus 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 itself
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 itself
keeps on expanding
and expanding
In all of the directions
it can whiz
As fast as it can go
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
'cos there's bugger all
down here on Earth