Just re - member you’re a tiny little person on a planet
In a universe expanding and immense
That life began evolving and dissolving and resolving
In the deep primordial oceans by the hydrothermal vents
Our earth which had its birth almost five billion years ago
From out of a collapsing cloud of gas
Grew life which was quite new And eventually led to you
In only three point five billion years or less.
Deoxy - ribo nucleic acid helps us replicate
And randomly mutate from day to day.
We left the seas and climbed the trees
And our biologies continued to evolve through DNA.
We’re 98.9 per cent the same as chimpanzees
Whose trees we left three million years ago
To wander swapping genes out of Africa which means
We’re related to everyone we know. ("Oo allo luv")
(Bridge - Switches to ¾ time)
Life is quite strange Life is quite weird,
Life is really quite odd Life from a star is far more bizarre,
Than an old bearded bloke they call God
So gaze at the sky, and start asking why You’re even here on this ball
For though life is fraught The odds are so short
You’re lucky to be here at all…
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Standing on a planet which is spinning round a star
One of just a billion trillion suns
In a Universe that’s ninety billion light years side to side
Wondering where the heck it all came from.
You’ve a tiny little blink of life to try and understand
What on earth is really going on
In biology and chemistry which made you you and made me me
But don’t ask me I only wrote the song.
Outro whistled as per bridge - switches to ¾ time