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The Universe Wants To Kill Us

from Fits And Starts by Billy Cromb

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This song was inspired by watching Neil deGrasse Tyson on The Daily Show.

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The Universe Wants to kill us

A meteorite exploded with the force of twenty-five
Atom bombs, twenty kilometers up we watched on
Dashboard Cams that every Russian car has
To protect people from lawsuits and police corruption

If it had been a little bigger
It would have killed us
No charming crew of rig pigs and roughnecks
There to save us
We'd be like the dinosaurs
All our petty problems gone to
Dust in the atmosphere
Blotting out the sun
Ash right before our eyes
Killing everyone

The Universe wants to kill us
Oh, the Universe wants us dead
If an asteroid doesn't get the job done
Something else will instead.

On the very same day a forty thousand ton asteroid
Passed very near (at least on a cosmic scale)
If we had had a little less luck there'd be
Another Tunguska (you should really look Tunguska up if you get chance)

If it had passed a little closer
It might have killed us
No charming crew of rig pigs and roughnecks
There to save us
We'd be like the dinosaurs
All our petty problems gone to
Dust in the atmosphere
Choking out the sun
Ash right before our eyes
Killing everyone

The Universe wants to kill us
Oh, the Universe wants us dead
If an asteroid doesn't get the job done
Something else will instead.
The Universe wants to kill us
It doesn't like us alive
Eventually it will succeed
I hope we've got some time

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from Fits And Starts, track released March 10, 2013
Everything by Billy Cromb

Image Credit:
Image Credit: NASA/ESA
Acknowledgement: N. Rose

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Billy Cromb Vancouver, British Columbia

DIY recording artist in Vancouver.

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