Lyrics:Why Does The Sun Shine? (Ritz Show)
| Why Does The Sun Shine? (Ritz Show) |
| By: They Might Be Giants |
| Year: 2001 |
JF: "...Linnell! Linnell." JL: "Yeah? Alright, you sing it - here's some more of that patter thing. I'm - I'm loving that." JF: "All right. What shall I talk about now?" JL: "I dunno. We could get a subject from the audience." JF: "What, do like an improv? We're like an improv troupe?" JL: "Right, exactly." JF: "We've got, like, preplanned stuff, and like, give us a word and we just fit it into the same stuff we were gonna do anyway. Alright - 'rock music'. Right, okay, rock music. Right." JL: "Right, okay. Here we go. No, we have to huddle. The huddle. It lasts like ten minutes. Everyone's so bored by the end." JF: "Come back. Okay. So here's a song that was originally - this song was written by the guy who wrote Unchained Melody, whose name is Hy Zaret. H Y, Z A R E T, if you're writing this down. And, uh, this song is 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 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 The sunlight that we see The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy 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 The sun is so hot that everything on it is like a total gas! Copper wire, aluminum wire, small ships of wood, abandoned... wooden houses - a gas! The sun is large The sun is so hot that a million Earths could fit inside And yet, the sun is just a middle-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 People and ladies! Scientists have found that the sun is like a huge atom-smashing machine! The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between estrogen, estrogen, estrogen and more estrogen! 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 |
