Galaxy Song Lyrics - Singles - Eric Idle

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 

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 million miles a day 

In an outer spiral orb, at 40,000 miles an hour 

Of the galaxy, we call the Milky Way 

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars 

It's a 100,000 light years side to 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 200,000,000 years 

And our galaxy 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 

12,000,000 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 up in space 

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