Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth Lyrics
Archaean horizonThe first sunriseOn a pristine GaeaOpus perfectumSomewhere thereUs sleeping"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?"[- Professor Richard Dawkins]The cosmic law of gravityPulled the newborns around a fireA careless, cold infinity in every vast directionLonely farer in the Goldilocks zoneShe has a tale to tellFrom the stellar nursery into a carbon feastEnter LUCAThe tapestry of chemistryThere is a writing in the gardenLeading us to the mother of allWe are oneWe are a universeForbears of what will beScions of the Devonian seaAeons passWriting the tale of us allA day-to-day new openingFor the greatest show on EarthIon channels welcoming the outside worldTo the stuff of starsBedding the tree of a biological holyEnter lifeThe tapestry of chemistryThere is a writing in the gardenLeading us to the mother of allWe are oneWe are a universeForbears of what will beScions of the Devonian seaAeons passWriting the tale of us allA day-to-day new openingFor the greatest show on EarthWe are oneWe are a universeForbears in what will beScions of the Devonian seaAeons passWriting the tale of us allA day-to-day new openingFor the greatest show on EarthWe are here to care for the gardenThe wonder of birthOf every form most beautifulAfter a billion yearsThe show is still hereNot a single one of your fathers died youngThe handy travelersOut of AfricaLittle Lucy of the afarGave birth to fantasyTo idolatryTo self-destructive weaponryEnter the god of gapsDeep within the pastAtavistic dread of the hunterEnter Ionia, the cradle of thoughtThe architecture of understandingThe human lust to feel so exceptionalTo rule the EarthHunger for shiny rocksFor giant mushroom cloudsThe will to do just as you'd be done byEnter history, the grand finaleEnter Ratkind[3x]Man, he took his time in the sunHad a dream to understandA single grain of sandHe gave birth to poetryBut one day'll cease to beGreet the last light of the libraryWe were hereWe were hereWe were hereWe were here"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"[- Professor Richard Dawkins]"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."[- Charles Darwin]
