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T'he Greatest Show On Earth
have been - and are
fixed law of gravity - From
have never stirred
Sahara - Certainly those unborn
birth to fantasy - To idolatry
Archaean horizon - The first
sunrise - On a pristine gaea
To self-destru
ctive weaponry
Opus perfectum
Somewhere there - us sleeping
ghosts include greater poets
Enter the God of gaps - Deep
After sleeping through a hundred
million centuries we have
within the past - Atavistic
finally opened our eyes on a
sumptuous planet sparkling with
There is grandeur in this
than Keats - scientists greater
dread of the hunted- Enter Ionia
color - bountiful with life
Within decades we must close our
The cradle of thought - The
eyes again - Isn't it a noble
and enlightened
way of spending
than Newton - We know this
architectur
e of understandi
ng
our brief time in the sun - to
work at understandi
ng the
The human lust to feel so
universe and how we have
come to wake up in it
so simple a beginning
view of life with its several
because the set of possible
exceptional
- To rule the Earth
The cosmic law of gravity
Pulled the newborns around
Hunger for shiny rocks
a fire - A careless cold
infinity in every vast direction
people allowed by our DNA so
For giant mushroom clouds
Lonely farer in the Goldilocks
zone - She has a tale to tell
The will to do as you'd be
From the stellar nursery into
a carbon feast - Enter LUCA
powers having been
massively exceeds the set of
done by - Enter history
The tapestry of chemistry
There's a writing in the garden
the grand finale - Enter ratkind
Leading us to the mother of all
We are one - We are a universe
actual people - In the teeth of
Man he took his time in the sun
Forebears of - what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
Had a dream to understand
Aeons pass - Writing
the tale of us all
being - evolved
endless forms most
originally breathed into a few
those stupefying odds it is you
A single grain of sand
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
He gave birth to poetry
Ion channels welcoming the
outside world - To the stuff
and I in our ordinarines
s that
But one day'll cease to be
of stars - Bedding the tree of
a biological holy - Enter life
Greet the last light
The tapestry - of chemistry
There's a writing in the garden
forms or into one and that
are here - We privileged few who
of the library
Leading us to the mother of all
We are one -- We are a universe
We were here - We were here
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
won the lottery of birth
We were here -- We were here
Aeons pass- Writing the tale
of us all - A day-to-day
We are going to die and that
new opening - For the
greatest show on Earth
beautiful and most wonderful
whilst this planet has gone
against all odds - how dare we
makes us the lucky ones
We are here to care for the
garden - The wonder of birth
Most people are never going to
Of every form most beautiful
Every form most beautiful
whine at our inevitable return
die because they are never going
We are one - We are a
universe - Forebears of
to be born - The potential
what will be - Scions of the
Devonian sea - Aeons pass
cycling on according to the
to that prior state from which
people who could have been here
writing the tale of us all - A
day-to-day new opening - For
in my place but who will in fact
the greatest show on Earth
After a billion years - The show
the vast majority
never see the light of day
is still here - Not a single one
of your fathers died young - The
outnumber the sand grains of
handy travelers - Out of Africa
Little Lucy of the Afar - Gave
