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As heard in the APOUD episode "TO INFINITY AND BEYOND" it's the existential space lullaby that will help you find your place in the universe.

Listen to the whole episode by searching for "Unnecessary Detail" wherever you get your podcasts, or head to:
festivalofthespokennerd.com/podcast

This recording is taken from our filmed science comedy special "You Can't Polish A Nerd". Download and watch the whole thing, and two other comedy specials, from just £π (£3.14) from the Spoken Nerd shop:
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Snug and warm, tucked up in bed
Dozing off, your sleepy head
Is still upon your Ikea flatpack bower
But as the earth rotates you’re moving at 600 miles an hour

As you lay down to sleep tonight
Don't let those existential bed bugs bite

So while you sleep, I’ll let you know
That’s not the only place you’ll go
Cos the earth’s revolving round and round the sun
At 67,000 miles an hour, give or take a tonne

I find this helps me to know my place
Which is insignificant in the vastness of space

Because our galaxy is turning, spiral arms all in a spin
515,000 miles an hour for the bit our solar system’s in

This queasy feeling may disappear
In the coming weeks, months or possibly years

Because our Milky Way is still moving from the moment of the Big Bang
We are currently cruising at 1.3 million miles an hour
You might be feeling still and tiny
But you‘re moving faster than lightning                     

With relativity
You’re a space traveller in your sleep

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from An Album Of Unnecessary Detail, released September 1, 2020

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Helen Arney London, UK

"Geek Songstress" Helen Arney is the UK's finest purveyor of comedy songs with a scientifically verified twist.

"Champion of musical whims" Evening Standard
**** ”Harnesses the spirit of Ben Folds & the Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon… delightful” (Chortle)

Also one third of Festival of the Spoken Nerd and author of "The Element In The Room" ... more

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