The Greatest Show On Earth歌词

[00:01.06]*Part 1: Four Point Six*
[03:41.89]Archaean horizon
[03:53.59]The first sunrise
[04:05.02]On a pristine Gaea
[04:16.76]Opus perfectum
[04:22.26]Somewhere there, us sleeping
[05:22.11]"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
[05:24.45]we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet,
[05:28.19]sparkling with color, bountiful with life.
[05:31.35]Within decades we must close our eyes again.
[05:34.91]Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time
[05:39.62]in the sun, to work at understanding the universe
[05:43.79]and how we have come to wake up in it?"
[05:47.06]*Part 2: Life*
[06:29.57]The cosmic law of gravity
[06:32.05]Pulled the newborns around a fire
[06:36.31]A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
[06:43.68]Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
[06:46.54]She has a tale to tell
[06:50.58]From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
[06:56.13]Enter LUCA
[06:57.72]The tapestry of chemistry
[07:03.92]There's a writing in the garden
[07:09.37]Leading us to the mother of all
[07:14.49]We are one
[07:17.82]We are a universe
[07:21.61]Forebears of what will be
[07:25.17]Scions of the Devonian sea
[07:28.89]Aeons pass
[07:32.03]Writing the tale of us all
[07:35.81]A day-to-day new opening
[07:38.80]For the greatest show on Earth
[07:43.46]Ion channels welcoming the outside world
[07:47.43]To the stuff of stars
[07:50.28]Bedding the tree of a biological holy
[07:53.18]Enter life
[07:57.27]The tapestry of chemistry
[08:03.52]There's a writing in the garden
[08:09.73]Leading us to the mother of all
[08:14.74]We are one
[08:18.26]We are a universe
[08:21.61]Forebears of what will be
[08:24.67]Scions of the Devonian sea
[08:28.84]Aeons pass
[08:31.84]Writing the tale of us all
[08:35.67]A day-to-day new opening
[08:39.34]For the greatest show on Earth
[09:11.19]We are here to care for the garden
[09:17.76]The wonder of birth
[09:21.26]Of every form most beautiful
[09:30.88]Every form most beautiful
[09:39.63]We are one
[09:42.73]We are a universe
[09:46.07]Forebears of what will be
[09:49.83]Scions of the Devonian sea
[09:53.44]Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
[10:00.33]A day-to-day new opening
[10:03.59]For the greatest show on Earth
[11:28.09]*Part 3: The Toolmaker*
[12:18.38]After a billion years
[12:20.18]The show is still here
[12:21.84]Not a single one of your fathers died young
[12:24.94]The handy travelers
[12:26.46]Out of Africa
[12:28.04]Little Lucy of the Afar
[12:31.17]Gave birth to fantasy
[12:32.62]To idolatry
[12:34.26]To self-destructive weaponry
[12:37.55]Enter the God of gaps
[12:39.38]Deep within the past
[12:40.63]Atavistic dread of the hunted
[12:56.44]Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought
[12:59.37]The architecture of understanding
[13:02.63]The human lust to feel so exceptional
[13:05.63]To rule the Earth
[13:08.44]Hunger for shiny rocks
[13:10.23]For giant mushroom clouds
[13:11.87]The will to do just as you'd be done by
[13:14.85]Enter history, the grand finale
[13:18.12]Enter ratkind
[13:21.88]Man, he took his time in the sun
[13:25.26]Had a dream to understand
[13:28.31]A single grain of sand
[13:33.48]He gave birth to poetry
[13:37.61]But one day'll cease to be
[13:40.43]Greet the last light of the library
[14:48.47]Man, he took his time in the sun
[14:52.22]Had a dream to understand
[14:55.53]A single grain of sand
[15:00.64]He gave birth to poetry
[15:04.59]But one day'll cease to be
[15:08.11]Greet the last light of the library
[15:13.21]Man, he took his time in the sun
[15:17.14]Had a dream to understand
[15:20.54]A single grain of sand
[15:25.52]He gave birth to poetry
[15:29.63]But one day'll cease to be
[15:32.95]Greet the last light of the library
[15:40.88](please sing with us)
[15:42.80]We were here!
[15:48.14](we were here, range your voices up with the band please,
[15:51.75]and down here everybody as load as you can! )
[15:54.99]We were here!
[16:05.87](a big one coming! )
[16:07.43]We were here!
[16:15.79](and the last one! )
[16:20.00]We were here!
[16:45.49]*Part 4: The Understanding*
[16:56.10]"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
[17:01.52]Most people are never going to die because
[17:05.12]they are never going to be born.
[17:07.55]The potential people who could have been
[17:10.53]here in my place but who will in fact never see
[17:13.85]the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.
[17:19.45]Certainly those unborn ghosts include
[17:22.26]greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.
[17:25.73]We know this because the set of possible people
[17:30.19]allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set
[17:34.47]of actual people. In the teeth of those stupefying
[17:39.53]odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
[17:44.64]We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds,
[17:51.15]how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
[17:56.38]from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
[19:24.22]*Part 5: Sea-Worn Driftwood*
[19:48.80]"Thus, from the war of nature,
[19:52.55]from famine and death,
[19:56.40]the most exalted object which we are capable of
[20:00.13]conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals,
[20:04.08]directly follows.
[20:07.56]There is grandeur in this view of life,
[20:11.30]with its several powers,
[20:14.51]originally breathed into a few forms or into one;
[20:20.15]and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on
[20:23.99]according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple
[20:29.13]a beginning endless forms most beautiful
[20:38.06]and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."