[03:44.07]Archaean horizon
[03:54.13]The first sunrise
[04:05.18]On a pristine gaea
[04:17.08]Opus perfectum
[04:23.10]Somewhere there, us sleeping
[04:37.59]
[05:21.69]"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
[05:24.33]We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet
[05:28.66]Sparkling with color, bountiful with life.
[05:31.45]Within decades we must close our eyes again.
[05:35.03]Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of
[05:38.52]Spending our brief time in the sun
[05:40.31]To work at understanding the universe
[05:44.24]And how we have come to wake up in it?"
[05:47.03]
[06:29.55]The cosmic law of gravity
[06:32.29]Pulled the newborns around a fire
[06:36.52]A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
[06:43.74]Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
[06:46.62]She has a tale to tell
[06:50.17]From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
[06:55.34]Enter LUCA
[06:57.73]The tapestry of chemistry
[07:03.75]There's a writing in the garden
[07:09.88]Leading us to the mother of all
[07:13.46]
[07:15.20]We are one
[07:18.14]We are a universe
[07:21.77]Forebears of what will be
[07:25.10]Scions of the Devonian sea
[07:28.79]Aeons pass
[07:32.17]Writing the tale of us all
[07:35.80]A day-to-day new opening
[07:39.09]For the greatest show on Earth
[07:41.77]
[07:43.62]Ion channels welcoming the outside world
[07:47.16]To the stuff of stars
[07:50.24]Bedding the tree of a biological holy
[07:53.38]Enter life
[07:57.51]The tapestry of chemistry
[08:03.73]There's a writing in the garden
[08:09.50]Leading us to the mother of all
[08:13.36]
[08:15.00]We are one
[08:17.88]We are a universe
[08:21.47]Forebears of what will be
[08:25.30]Scions of the Devonian sea
[08:28.39]Aeons pass
[08:32.08]Writing the tale of us all
[08:35.62]A day-to-day new opening
[08:39.05]For the greatest show on Earth
[08:43.24]
[09:11.30]We are here to care for the garden
[09:17.67]The wonder of birth
[09:20.46]Of every form most beautiful
[09:30.11]Every form most beautiful
[09:39.83]We are one
[09:42.47]We are a universe
[09:46.00]Forebears of what will be
[09:49.18]Scions of the Devonian sea
[09:52.57]Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
[10:00.03]A day-to-day new opening
[10:03.57]For the greatest show on Earth
[10:08.25]
[12:19.57]After a billion years
[12:20.66]The show is still here
[12:22.16]Not a single one of your fathers died young
[12:25.29]The handy travelers
[12:26.98]Out of Africa
[12:28.18]Little Lucy of the Afar
[12:31.61]Gave birth to fantasy
[12:32.91]To idolatry
[12:34.40]To self-destructive weaponry
[12:37.53]Enter the God of gaps
[12:39.18]Deep within the past
[12:40.47]Atavistic dread of the hunted
[12:43.01]
[12:56.69]Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought
[12:59.19]The architecture of understanding
[13:02.38]The human lust to feel so exceptional
[13:05.46]To rule the Earth
[13:08.24]Hunger for shiny rocks
[13:10.39]For giant mushroom clouds
[13:11.78]The will to do just as you'd be done by
[13:15.37]Enter history, the grand finale
[13:18.00]Enter ratkind
[13:19.85]
[13:20.64]Man, he took his time in the sun
[13:25.52]Had a dream to understand
[13:28.16]A single grain of sand
[13:33.04]He gave birth to poetry
[13:37.73]But one day'll cease to be
[13:40.47]Greet the last light of the library
[13:46.31]
[14:48.71]Man, he took his time in the sun
[14:52.69]Had a dream to understand
[14:55.72]A single grain of sand
[15:00.15]He gave birth to poetry
[15:04.83]But one day'll cease to be
[15:07.62]Greet the last light of the library
[15:10.60]
[15:13.59]Man, he took his time in the sun
[15:16.97]Had a dream to understand
[15:20.21]A single grain of sand
[15:25.38]He gave birth to poetry
[15:29.43]But one day'll cease to be
[15:32.76]Greet the last light of the library
[15:43.16]We were here!
[15:55.50]We were here!
[16:08.05]We were here!
[16:20.50]We were here!
[16:22.83]
[18:10.30]"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.
[18:16.88]Most people are never going to die
[18:19.02]Because they are never going to be born.
[18:22.50]The potential people who could have been here in my place
[18:26.03]But who will in fact never see the light of day
[18:28.87]Outnumber the sand grains of Sahara
[18:34.39]Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats
[18:37.78]Scientists greater than Newton
[18:42.01]We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA
[18:47.23]So massively exceeds the set of actual people.
[18:52.56]In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I
[18:57.09]In our ordinariness, that are here
[19:01.32]We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds
[19:06.24]How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
[19:12.53]From which the vast majority have never stirred?"
[19:15.67]
[21:32.59]"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers
[21:36.42]Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one;
[21:40.55]And that whilst this planet has gone cycling
[21:43.84]On according to the fixed law of gravity
[21:46.32]From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful
[21:50.60]And most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."