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Where Your Eyes Don't Go - Why Does The Sun Shine? Medley
By: They Might Be Giants

Copyright: 2001

Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
When you turn around to look it's gone behind you
On its face it's wearing your confused expression
Where your eyes don't go

Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
It's a nightmare that you'll never be discovering
You're free to come and go
Or talk like Kurtis Blow
But there's a pair of eyes in back of your head

Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part
That wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of
Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you
Or is it worse because it's always waiting
Where your eyes don't go?

Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
It's a nightmare that you'll never be discovering
You're free to come and go
Or talk like Kurtis Blow
But there's a pair of eyes in back of your head

Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
When you turn around and look it's gone behind you
On its face it's wearing your confused expression
Where your eyes don't go...

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Yo ho, it's hot
The sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without a doubt
Without the sun
There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

JL: It is so hot that everything on it is a gas. Aluminum, copper, and iron.

The sun is large

JL: If the sun were hollow, a million Earths would fit inside, and yet, it is only a medium-sized star.

The sun is far away

JL: It's about ninety-three million miles away! And that's why it looks so small.

But even when it's out of sight, the sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy

JL: Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reactions between oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, helium, and... hydrogen.

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees