The Milky Way
LYRICS
Suckling the nipples of the Milky Way
Singing spirituals of a better day
Through the nectar of stardust, we weigh
Through the dust to dust, we will return someday
A snake eating it’s own tail
Talk about an epic fail
Want to write a better tale
Into the galaxy we sail
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey
Along came a blackhole and sucked up inside her
Making more mortality a blur (more mortality)
Just for fun run ’round the sun
As we make our way
So our mass may pass
Into the future past
ABOUT THE SONG
To say “we are stardust” may be a cliche, but it’s an undeniable fact that most of the essential elements of life are made in stars.
“For the first time, we can now study the distribution of elements across our Galaxy,” says Sten Hasselquist of New Mexico State University. “The elements we measure include the atoms that make up 97% of the mass of the human body.”
The new results come from a catalog of more than 150,000 stars; for each star, it includes the amount of each of almost two dozen chemical elements. The new catalog includes all of the so-called “CHNOPS elements” – carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur – known to be the building blocks of all life on Earth. This is the first time that measurements of all of the CHNOPS elements have been made for such a large number of stars.
— Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS/APOGEE) / January 5, 2017
Style: ExperiMental Music
Chords: C Em Cm / 104 BPM
Recording: digital stereo
Vocals, Keyboards and Synthesizers
From the album Exoskeleton
by Daniel Brouse