Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.Brown <br />And things seem hard or tough <br />And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft <br />And you feel that you've had quite enough <br /> <br />Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving <br />And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour <br />That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned <br />A sun that is the source of all our power <br /> <br />The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see <br />Are moving at a million miles a day <br />In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour <br />Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way' <br /> <br />Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars <br />It's a hundred thousand light years side to side <br />It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick <br />But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide <br /> <br />We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point <br />We go 'round every two hundred million years <br />And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions <br />In this amazing and expanding universe <br /> <br />The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding <br />In all of the directions it can whizz <br />As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know <br />Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is <br /> <br />So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure <br />How amazingly unlikely is your birth <br />And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space <br />'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth<br /><br />Jon Treloar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/galaxy-song-by-monty-python/
