Attraction and Repulsion ft. Howard Bloom Institute Lyrics

Love and the birth of a universe

What are they all about?

Attraction and repulsion

The gathering in

The pushing to get out

The binding of atoms

The breaking of hearts

The needs that bring us together

The needs that tear us apart

It's time to dance the big bang tango

Hold hands. Pull together

Get angry, spin away

Chase and catch each other

Then burst apart again

Hug tight, spin, and separate

Attraction and repulsion

Repeat the two. Reiterate

The Big Bang was repulsion

Taken to the nth degree

A glowing point punched from the nothing

Swelling at hyperspeed

Yet in the rush to separate

Attraction showed its greed

Electrons, quarks, and photons

Tugged themselves together

From the blast of energy

Electrons, quarks, and photons

These were the cosmic seeds

It's time to dance the big bang tango

Hold hands. Pull together

Spit anger, spin away

Chase and catch each other

Then slam apart again

Hug tight, spin, and separate

Attraction and repulsion

Repeat the two. Reiterate

Three hundred thousand years later

The sprint slowed down considerably

Atoms came together

Drawn by inanimate need

Moseying electrons

Felt a magnetic lure

They settled into orbit

Around proton-neutron cores

Yet even in these atoms

That attraction's power made

Repulsion kept electrons

Hovering at bay

Then came the attractive force

We know as gravity

Gathering the dust

Of nebulae, and galaxies

Yet even here some rebels

Kept their distance, stayed apart

Spinning hard in spiral arms

They shunned the galactic heart

It's time to dance the big bang tango

Hold hands. Pull together

Spit anger, spin away

Chase and catch each other

Then hurl apart again

Hug tight, spin, and separate

Attraction and repulsion

Repeat the two. Reiterate

Nearly four billion years ago

On a planet still brand new

Life-stuff came together

And life did its tango too

Attraction and repulsion

The dance of join-and-separate

Our foremothers were bacteria-a hugging, clinging bunch

Yet they had to move apart

When it came time to munch

Trillions squeezed together in a single colony

But every time their food ran out

They massed to march and separate

Spreading to find new feed

It's time to dance the big bang tango

Hold hands. Pull together

Get angry, spin away

Chase and catch each other

Then shoot apart again

Hug tight, spin, and separate

Attraction and repulsion

Repeat the two. Reiterate

Then along came humans

Tango masters incarnate

Love pulls us together

Then in spats we separate

Attraction and repulsion

We do it as tribes and nations

We do it when we mate

We are the big bang's children

We are columns of the dust

The cosmos twisted 'round our sun

Our blood runs red with iron forged

In fires of exploding stars

After their course was run

Each cell of your hand, or eye, or brain

Is a team of atoms gathered from a star

The big bang's womb once made

We dance the big bang tango

Attract, repulse, reiterate

Love each other, fear each other, come together

Argue, hate

It's time to dance the big bang tango

Hold hands. Pull together

Get angry, spin away

Chase and catch each other

Then burst apart again

Hug tight, spin, and separate

Attraction and repulsion

Repeat the two. Reiterate

Love and the birth of a universe

What are they all about?

Attraction and repulsion

The gathering in

The pushing to get out

The binding of atoms

The breaking of hearts

The needs that bring us together

The needs that tear us apart