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 enu-hu-hu-huuuuff...

Just remember that you're standing,
on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second,
or so it's reckoned,
the 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 the outer spiral arm,
at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our Galaxy itself
contains 100 billion stars,
it's 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 million years -
And our galaxy is only one
of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself,
keeps on expanding and expanding,
in all of the directions it can whiz.
As fast as it can go,
at the speed of light you know,
twelve million miles a minute,
and that's the fastest speed there is.

So remember, when you're feeling
very small and insecure
how amazingly unlikely was your birth.
And pray that there's intelligent life,
somewhere up in space,
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth.