Lyrics:Why Does The Sun Shine? (Live NYC)
| Why Does The Sun Shine? (Live NYC) |
| By: They Might Be Giants |
| Year: 1994 |
Flansburgh: Well here's an educational song, uh, and it's called "Why Does The Sun Shine?" 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, 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 the sun, Without a doubt, 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 It is so hot that everything on it is a gas. Aluminium, copper, iron, and many others. The sun is large. 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 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. We need its light We need its heat The sunlight that we see The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reaction between hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and helium. 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 Linnell: The sun, ladies and gentlemen. |
