This one's on my tape.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Of H2 gas;
My particles made up a crowd
Of little mass;
My temperature was absolutely cold
And gravity my molecules did hold -
'Twas gravity, 'twas gravity,
Gravity, 'twas gravity.
For many aeons did I pass
Through empty space;
When I came to a region at last -
A busy place;
A place where infant stars did grow,
And the force that made their nuclei to glow -
'Twas gravity, 'twas gravity,
Gravity, 'twas gravity.
When first I felt a pull on me
In emptiness,
I learned the truth that I was free
To coalesce.
So a disc of dust and gas I became
And I knew my life would never be the same -
'Twas gravity, 'twas gravity,
Gravity, 'twas gravity.
My temperature began to rise
An awful lot;
And I began to realise
'Twas bloomin' 'ot!
And soon I shone with brilliant yellow light -
A brand new star a-shining in the night;
'Twas gravity, 'twas gravity,
Gravity, 'twas gravity.
But now at fifty billion years
I'm getting old;
And as my hydrogen disappears
I'm growing cold.
There will come a day when I collapse
To a great black hole that light and matter traps
By gravity, by gravity,
Gravity, by gravity.
Lyrics © Dan Bennett 1996