The Greatest Show On Earth Lyrics - Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Nightwish

1.) Four Point Six 

Archaean horizon 

The first sunrise 

On a pristine Gaea 

Opus perfectum 

Somewhere there, us sleeping 

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries 

We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet 

Sparkling with color, bountiful with life 

Within decades we must close our eyes again 

Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief 

Time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe 

And how we have come to wake up in it?" 

2.) Life 

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The cosmic law of gravity 

Pulled the newborns around a fire 

A careless, cold infinity in every vast direction 

Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone 

She has a tale to tell 

From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast 

Enter LUCA 

The tapestry of chemistry 

There's a writing in the garden 

Leading us to the Mother of all 

We are one 

We are a universe 

Forbears of what will be 

Scions of the Devonian sea 

Aeons pass 

Writing the tale of us all 

A day-to-day new opening 

For the greatest show on Earth 

Photos 

Ion channels welcoming the outside world 

To the stuff of stars 

Bedding the tree of a biological holy 

Enter life 

We are here to care for the garden 

The wonder of birth 

Of every form most beautiful 

3.) The Toolmaker 

After a billion years 

The show is still here 

Not a single one of your fathers died young 

The handy travelers 

Out of Africa 

Little Lucy of the Afar 

Gave birth to fantasy 

To idolatry 

To self-destructive weaponry 

Enter the god of gaps 

Deep within the past 

Atavistic dread of the hunted 

Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought 

The architecture of understanding 

The human lust to feel so exceptional 

To rule the Earth 

Hunger for shiny rocks 

For giant mushroom clouds 

The will to do just as you'd be done by 

Enter history, the grand finale 

Enter Ratkind 

Man, he took his time in the sun 

Had a dream to understand 

A single grain of sand 

He gave birth to poetry 

But one day'll cease to be 

Greet the last light of the library 

We were here! 

We were here! 

We were here! 

We were here! 

4.) The Understanding 

"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. 

Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. 

The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. 

Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. 

We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. 

In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. 

We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?" 

"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one. 

And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." 

5.) Sea-Worn Driftwood