Sound of the Earth Spinning Lyrics

In conversation with a Swiss Astro particle physicist

He said that in our galaxy alone

There are approximately two hundred million stars

The universe is in his humble estimation

A collection of several hundred billion galaxies both high and wide

The idea that we are alone

Is little more than the furthest reach of human arrogance

Do you hear it

We have evolved too fast

Our purpose cannot keep up with our greed

Our devastation

Our non-compliance to nature

Our failure to be what we represent

And we cannot find our own evolution

We are defined only by history

And we will be remembered in tears

Do you hear it

When our children die in the war it's a tragedy

When their children die in the war it's a victory

Violence is a human characteristic

The pro-lifers are killing the abortionists

Tell me is the earth unpopular

Chinese whispers of love

At the end of another street the corporate supermarket

Puts out of business the local butcher

Baker

Greengrocer

Its inferior products are cheap

And flown in from exploited under developed countries

Leaving behind a massive carbon footprint

And an imbalance in the ecology of life

Its customers say its so convenient

There are too many people poor and in need

Can you hear it

Mankind's greatest marketing achievement is convincing us that it's all right

We're in safe hands

Life will be sustained

We are the masters of our destiny

Money is our number one objective

And the sole heir to our moment of dominance

Money succeeds us as the number one priority over life

In another corner of the world

Lawyers sue governments on behalf of their clients

Who have tripped over a tree root lifting the pavement

In response to the many lawsuits

The local government has cut down all the trees

On a leafy boulevard

A meter above the ground

Lawyers

Do you hear it

As a race we are unable to accept change as a rational concept

Extinction waits for those without the ability to adapt

And for the smallest moment in time

Extinction happens only to other animals

Society is becoming more and more suspicious

Of those of us who value silence

I am not a great man because Beethoven wrote the ninth symphony

Or because of Shakespeare

Da Vinci

Einstein

We are not them

Although we wear the same skin

Statistics delivers us fact from fiction

Life is constructed of miscellaneous things

I grant you my presumption

In an AIDS clinic the businessman said he was foolish

To have unprotected sex with a Nigerian prostitute

He hoped his wife wouldn't find out the hard way

We dwell in the womb of our mothers

When the world can no longer be bared

Love enables you to experience loss in detail

We spent that day together

It was the last day before we were to become parents

We let out all our lifeboats

Her eyes were loaded

This is the sound of the Earth spinning