Whenever life get you down, Mrs. Brown, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And things seem hard or tough. And you feel that you've had quite enu-hu-hu-huuuuff! Just - re-member that you're standing on a planet that's evolving It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned, and revolving at 900 miles an hour, the sun that is the source of all our power. of the Galaxy we call the Milky Way. are moving at a million miles a day, The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, it's 100,000 light-years side-to-side, Our Galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars, It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick, we go round every 200 million years, but out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide. We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point, in this amazing and expanding universe. And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know, in all of the directions it can whizz, So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. how amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there's bugger all down here on Earth.