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The Sun Has Got Its Huff On

from An Album Of Unnecessary Detail by Helen Arney

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As heard in the APOUD episode "FUEL" this is a torch song for the ultimate stellar torch that is our Sun.

Listen to the whole episode by searching for "Unnecessary Detail" wherever you get your podcasts, or head to:
festivalofthespokennerd.com/podcast/episode-01-fuel/

Watch the song performed live on YouTube in our comedy special "Just For Graphs": youtu.be/R84iBPVbv44

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I used to be someone
Now I’m just another sun
One of a hundred thousand billion
Billion

You treat me insignificantly
Name a tabloid after me
Synonymous with paparazzi
Just a backdrop for Brian Cox on TV

Since Edwin Hubble it’s never been the same
Those pictures of other stars pushed me out the frame
You never even gave me a proper name, like
Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Tauri
Delta Librae, HR 2948
Or Kevin

You’ve achieved nuclear fusion – oh well done!
Made some helium from a little hydrogen
Well every second I do that to 600 million tons
If I was Marilyn Monroe you’d be… the one I can't remember the name of from One Direction... which is all of One Direction...

You should have stopped at Copernicus
With me at the centre of your universe
You say I’m just an average ball of gas
I say you’re talking out of Uranus

1.4 million kilometres
That’s my diameter
Tell me seriously with those parameters
Have you ever tried to put a hat on there?
Hip hip hip hooray
I’ll be a red giant one day
You earth will go up in flames
But in the meantime please join my facebook fanpage
Seriously, I've only got nine likes
Well, it's gone down to eight now since Pluto defriended me

I will shine on!

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from An Album Of Unnecessary Detail, released September 1, 2020
Song and vocals by Helen Arney, music production by Howard Carter.

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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"
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