Whenever life gets you down, Ms. Brown
And things are hard and tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious and daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough, enough:
Just remember that you're standing on a planet
That's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour
It's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned
Round the sun that is the source for 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 40,000 miles an hour
In the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Now, the galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side from side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light years thick
But out by us, it's just 3,000 light years wide
We're 30,000 light years from Galactic central point
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions and billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
Now, the universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In every direction it could wish
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know
12 million miles a minute, that's the fastest thing there is
So, remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely was your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up above
Because there isn't any down here on earth
So, lighten up, and there are stars in the sky
Lighten up, it's a good question why
But you don't have the answer and neither do I
So, meanwhile, let's just all lighten up
And remember that you're standing on a planet
That's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour
It's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned
Round the sun that is the source for all our power
The sun and you and me, all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
In the galaxy we call the Milky Way