Galaxy Song

Galaxy Song - Clint Black

Written by：Eric Idle/John Du Prez

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving

Revolving at 900 miles an hour

It's orbiting at 19 miles a second so it's reckoned

The 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 the outer spiral arm at 40000 miles an hour

Of a 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 itself is only one of millions of billions

In this amazing and expanding universe

Our 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 out in space

'Cause I'm afraid that we've been cheated here on earth