Five and a Half Minutes

Five and a Half Minutes - Katie Thompson

Written by：Kait Kerrigan/Brian Lowdermilk

Every 5 and half minutes

The universe expands

4 miles

And every time I blink

Another child enters the world

The world has 6 and half billion people

This year

And there are 8 million people

In this city on this Islannd

But right here right now somehow you're

Sitting

Here

I may not ever catch my breath

No matter how I try

And I may never understand how every single day

We breathe 23 thousand times

Because watching your chest

Rise and fall

The numbers don't add up

When all we are's 100 trillion cells

206 bones 5 quarts of blood

45 miles of nerves nerves nerves

And 100 thousand hairs

And too many organs

And 60 thousand miles of arteries

We must have been made by a man

'Cause a woman would have made us more economically

I don't know what that means

All I know is that I've seen this scene

Some years ago

And I would swear I'm watching from the stands

And I would swear I know

A second before you reach for her hand

Feels like it's some old movie

But the script's no good and the girl's no beauty

There's the evidence

More facts

But there won't ever be

A science of

The way you find or keep or measure

Love

How do you find

Or keep

Or measure

Love