UNIT Look Into The Sky

I wrote this music in 1982 - then added bits to it over the next 3 decades. The lyric I completed circa 2010 as the 3 previous texts used were not satisfactory. This is featured on our 30th album Fast - Clean - Cheap.

For only forty thousand years mankind has lived its hopes and fears;
from the Pleistocene to plasticine we’ve grown –
a fleeting history is all we’ve ever known.

All your religions, all financial deals you’ve tied,
your petty politics and patriotic pride,
are less than atoms in a sky that’s light years wide.

Our nearest galaxy is Messier 31,
one thousand million stars not so unlike our Sun;
it’s the most distant object naked eyes can see,
over two million light years between it and me.

Five thousand million years the Sun has shone each day,
a nuclear reactor 93 million miles away,
oblivious of the predator, indifferent to the prey.

All nature has maintained its resistance
to homosapiens repeated insistence of a purpose behind our existence,
so when I look into the sky I realise there is no reason ‘why’.

Andy Martin - Vocals, Keyboards.
Fabian Fritze - Bass Guitar, Guitar.
Colin Murrell - Drums, Electronics.

Text & Music: Andy Martin.

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