[Introduction] Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you’ve had quite enough….

[Verse 1] Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving And revolving at 900 miles/hour That’s orbiting at 19 miles/second, so it’s reckoned, A 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 1,000,000 miles/day In an outer spiral arm, at 40000 miles/hour Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’

[Verse 2] Our galaxy itself contains a 100,000,000,000 stars. It’s a 100,000 light years side to side It bulges in the middle, 16 thousand light years thick But out by us, it’s just 3 thousand light years wide We’re 30 thousand light years from galactic central point We go ’round every 200 million years And our galaxy is only one of 100 billions In this amazing and expanding universe

[Verse 3] The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know 12 million miles/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 up in space ’Cause there’s bugger-all down here on Earth!