[Verse] I incline myself to space There was no ghost on the moor No open window No monkey's paw
[Chorus] There in the mist, you asked me "Did you forget I exist " I said, "Yes" 'Cause you played too hard to get
[Part 2: The Buddha of the Modern Age]
The Buddha of the modern age Is barely paid minimum wage To [ ] and healthy [ ] the singing gave to our forefathers When we once reached to touch the sky Now we have no need to try The blurred photos of ghosts of men such permanence We don't comprehend nor [ ] our stupid mouths Or anything to burst through the insatiable thirst to keel over and over We [ ] the inferior species, wallow in our own faeces Gazing down [ ], no longer able to find some kind of perspective of us All the [ ] [ ][Part 3: Objects: Meanwhile]
Her shopping bag broke sending eggs and flour crashing Down to the ground, just like star clusters smashing But no one will give her a glance They just shuffle on home in a trance
The tiniest lives fill their hives up with worry To make it to church, well, she needs to hurry When late she will bow down contrite While a meteor turns out the light
And there in an ordinary street A car isn't where it would normally be The driver in tears, 'bout his payment arrears Still, nobody hears when a sun disappears In a galaxy afar
[Instrumental Break]
The start of a new job and he was so nervous The suit and the platitude, "Can I be of service " His boss made him clean all the cars While he wondered, "Is there life on Mars "
And meanwhile the stars line themselves up in order While we bicker on with our fences and borders But best not think about that It's better to live without And now in her old wedding bed A lady will dream that her husband is dead Of course he's alive, he'll be home around five Still, silence arrives, when a nebula dives into our Milky Way
[Instrumental Break]
The thunder and rain start, the paving stones melt And oddly the first spots make Orion's belt as You queue at the bank for an hour Cos a solar flare blew out the power
The nurse in the care home now empties a bath tub The water will spiral, a galaxies vast hub Is draining away as we speak But she loses her job there next week
And there with his first telescope A teenager stands full of hormones and hope As he squints at the night, like a painting of light He doesn't suppose that a black hole implodes In a trillion tears from now
[Part 4: The Cicerones/Ark]
[Instrumental Intro] [Verse] [ ]
[Part 5: Cosmic Sons of Toil]
[Instrumental]
[Part 6: No Ghost on the Moor/Heat Death of the Universe]
[Verse] I incline myself to space There was no ghost on the moor No open window No monkey's paw
[Chorus] There in the mist, you asked me "Did you forget I exist " I said, "Yes" 'Cause you played too hard to get
[Instrumental]
2.
The Overview
[Part 1: Perspective]
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1] Size beyond one megametre 10 to the power of 6 Ganymede Callisto Wolf 359 Size beyond one gigametre 10 to the power of 9 Sirius Altair Vega Polaris Size beyond one terametre 10 to the power of 12 Antares Pistol Star Betelgeuse
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2] Size beyond one petametre 10 to the power of 15 Stringray Nebula Ring Nebula Helix Nebula The Spire Hourglass N [Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3] Size beyond one exametre 10 to the power of 18 Omega Centurai Messier 54 Tarantula Nebula Size beyond one zettametre 10 to the power of 21 Milky Way Andromeda Galaxy Fornax Cluster Size beyond one yottametre 10 to the power of 24 Virgo Super Cluster Eridanus Supervoid Super Cluster Complex
[Instrumental Outro]
[Part 2: A Beautiful Infinity/Borrowed Atoms]
[Verse 1] Snow is falling but it can't be seen from here And back on Earth, my loving wife's been dead for years I see myself in relation to it all What seemed important now like dust inside the squall Each moment for me is a lifetime fo [Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2] The clouds have no history And the sea feels no sorrow The oxygen recycled And the atoms are just borrowed The painless and fragility Of this cycle, oh
[Chorus] [ ] Is this real or is this a dream There's no reason for anything Just a beautiful infinity No design and no one at the wheel Just an existential mystery La-la-la-la-la, la-la, la-la
[Outro] The light that radiates from here could shade the sun But in a billion years its journey's just begun (Begun, do-do-do-do)
[Part 3: Infinity Measured in Moments] [Instrumental Intro]
[Verse] Size beyond one megametre 10 to the power of 6 Ganymede Callisto Wolf 359 Size beyond one gigametre 10 to the power of 9 Sirius Altair Vega Polaris Size beyond one terametre 10 to the power of 12 Antares Pistol Star Betelgeuse
[Chorus] From the air, from the dust From the sea, from the blood In the capsule falling millions of years Creating [ ] All destroyed, [ ] through the void [ ] From the air, from the dust From the sea, from the blood In the capsule falling millions of years Creating [ ] All destroyed, [ ] through the void [ ]
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro] Size beyond one exametre 10 to the power of 18 Omega Centurai Messier 54 Tarantula Nebula Size beyond one zettametre 10 to the power of 21 Milky Way Andromeda Galaxy Fornax Cluster Size beyond one yottametre 10 to the power of 24 Virgo Super Cluster Eridanus Supervoid Super Cluster Complex
