The song is very moving. It makes you feel insignificant. That heals you. Same as you look at mountains and stars. You feel insignificant. Your issues are even smaller. That is healing. It is a song against depression and anxiety.
I don't think Eric Idle's talents as a songwriter and lyricist get nearly enough appreciation. The guy did unit conversion until he found lyrics that worked.
I’ve loved this song forever, but always thought of it as a quick little ditty, sung in a minute. Actually, it’s a very complex, seven stanza long, incredibly clever song full of mind blowing facts, that is written by a bloody genius! All the Python’s are/ were one of a kind, amazingly talented artists. RIP Terry Jones!
Last time I was at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, they had this clip displayed on a monitor, in a continuous loop, in the astronomy section.
Our phyiscs teacher showed us this in class once. It always stuck with me that he tried to cover and talk over the use of the word "bugger" but freely let the rest of the song play through.
Eric Idle and John Cleese did a show in my city some years ago. Eric sang this song during the show and it was amazing. He sounded almost like the original song, so little had changed though he was many years older, he sang this clear, steady, and If I wasnt watching him live, I could almost imagine it was a studio recording. It was the best part of the show imo.
Its supposed to make you feel better by showing you how insignificant your problems are. Thats whats it about in the context atleast. Try to find the organ donor sketch from their movie meaning of life. Its the prequel to this song.
David Copithorne The key line is 'how amazingly unlikely is your birth'. The sheer fact of your existence is a massive plus. In addition, I'm not living in the middle of a civil war, or suffering an incurable disease. Things could be worse.
cobaltno51 Exactly what I was thinking! When you remember how much space there is around you, it makes all your problems seem much smaller. I watch this every time I feel stressed. :)
This song, and the movie, helped keep me alive during the most depressing point in my life. I fell out of my seat laughing during the restaurant scene. For some reason the swinging watch fob(on a large screen) sent me into a laughing fit that I couldn't stop. It was a beautifully funny touch.
With love and affection and genuine sadness at the passing of the genius Terry Jones. ...one of the two funniest 'Terrys' to ever Python this earth. Thanks for all the laughs, mate..
I'm terrified of visiting anywhere in the UK as I'm going to damn well expect to see men in house dresses, curlers, and speaking cockney. People in school thought I was some Gaijin japan-ophile because I watched anime, fuck that I never wanted to be a pilot in a giant robot, I wanted to be in a Monty Python sketch. Get chased down by a knight with a rubber chicken, or told to shut my gob. But no. I live in Fucking Oklahoma. Red dirt and tornadoes, cows, rodeos. Yeah this place sucks so much that people strap themselves to pissed-off bulls and see who can ride the longest without losing their hat.
I don't know what it is about this song, but I find it very soul cleansing. I find myself listening to it when I feel overwhelmed by the world around me.
Probably the last few lines, just remember, there better be intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there is truly bugger all down here on earth.
I love the way it's presented in the movie, just trying to convince her to give up her liver then he says "listen to this" and a guy comes out of a refrigerator and starts singing lol
+Bryce Hubscher Monty python smashes reality and logic to a bloody pulp and creates its own, with crayon,sheer bloody brilliance and one centuries worth of coke
This song was well before it’s time, and the figures and concepts are amazingly accurate for the time of the song... Plus, Eric Idle is one of the funniest and most talented men who has ever lived.
its funny how scientists call this song out for being inaccurate so often these days. But as Eric Idle says, it was accurate at the time the song was written/performed to the best of human knowledge. Absolutely guarantee that if they rewrote it to todays understanding it too would be inaccurate in 10-15 years.
Meanwhile, the hair band Europe sang "we're heading for Venus with so many lightyears to go" in their song called The Final Countdown. Good job, considering there's around 1.5 AU there at its farthest... there are 63241 AU in a lightyear. Talk about taking a wrong turn.
The only inaccuracy is that instead of 100 billion stars. There's 200 billion according to modern science. I passed my astronomy final by memorizing this song
This makes me tear up and get choked up instantly. I love this song and the feeling it gives me but I’m fighting back tears every single time. Just one of those songs.
Thd scene in this movie where they cut out terry gilliams liver is one of the funniest fuckin things i have ever seen, this is without a doubt the best monty python film
Whenever anyone asks me what my favorite song is, i tell them this. The last line of the song is the most reassuring line ever written in musical history (to me anyway): "So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth, and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space cause there's bugger all down here on earth"
I know this has been on here for years, but I just have to pile on and say: This is an absolutely splendid, brilliant song. It's one of two of MP's best tunes (the other being "Every Sperm Is Sacred" ... both from the same movie!). It's truly Eric Idle at his very best. This song is not only outstanding musically; the whole thing is also substantially accurate. It makes me grateful to be alive, while also helping me keep everything into perspective. I just adore it.
Anyone else remember how this came after a really dark scene when they ripped that one dude's organs out because they needed a donor? ... I love Monty Python!
This is exactly the song I needed to put things into perspective. Thank you all of you wonderful actors. I was lucky enough to have a mum and a dad who were permissive enough to let me see things like Monty Python in my youth, and it has definitely helped me through some tough times.
This song almost single handedly (add 2-3 extra songs in there mainly always looks on the bright side of life) kept me alive from 17-19. I love this tune.
I know this is going to get buried in the sea of comments but this is the song my uncle, Mike, wanted played at his funeral and a lot of the people there were confused but I was just thinking that things like these were exactly why I loved my uncle Mike. ❤
A man comes out of a fridge with no warning or preamble, sings a little show tune, then it's right back into the fridge with no explanation ever given. :) I love Monty Python.
This song is so brilliant, the world as a whole hasn’t yet recognized its brilliance. One day, they will. Some of us do now, that’s why we’re all here, isn’t it? Well, one day, the rest of the world will catch up. It may take several more generations, but this song will be remembered on a much larger scale later down the road. I just know it.
They cut off the best part:TJ: "Makes you feel sort of insignificant"JC: "Yeah.....can we have your liver, then?"TJ: "All right, you talked me into it"JC: "ERIC!!"
GALAXY SONG SONGTEXT Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough... Just, remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned A sun that is the source of all our power The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way Our galaxy itself, contains a hundred billion stars It's a hundred thousand light years side-to-side It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick But out by us its just three thousand light years wide We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point We go round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whiz As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth
I love this bc it describes exactly what I do when frustrated with humans: think about the things as far off from humans as possible. Space is the ultimate!
R.I.P. Terry Jones, you will be sorely missed. And thank you for what you gave us. This is a classic piece, very well done. Terry just rocks that dress!
Whenever life gets you down Mrs Brown. My mother was Mrs Brown. She passed away at the age of 48 from cancer when i was just 18. That was 35 years ago, but this song makes me feel better about my loss. Cheers Monty Python 👍🦶🎪
@@anthonycallanan6540 I appreciate you taking the time to send me a very kind and heartwarming comment. I'm no legend, but thanks anyway. You're a geniune, kind person. Take care friend.
*_If only he had died at the age of 77 in January 23, 2020 instead._* Jokes aside, it really is sad. Still, this song makes me feel more like celebrating his birth than mourning his death.
Watching, and adoring, this song, for the first time in my life, tonight. It took me 32 years of living on this Earth to know Monty Python and it totally worth it. I am totally enjoying them.
I think in my very humble opinion some of the point of the song is being missed it is after all entertainment written with humour. I am not sure that t is was written and performed for the dissection of fact checkers but more to put a smile on our faces and perhaps it was more meant to tell us not to take life or ourselves too seriously because we are in the grand scheme of things quite insignificant!
So I never seen a single Monty Python movie, but I heard alot of these songs and must say....Eric Idle is amazing when it comes to singing, its like hearing Jim Dale do a Book on Tape or something its so calm so genuine, cheers to you Mr Idle! Love your work and yes I must watch a M.P sometime to experience this in full!
I honestly enjoy this far more than bright side. Despite it just being done to convince someone to give up their liver, there's just something about it that makes you truly appreciate the beauty of this universe.
Even the title is dumb. The only fault in the stars would be where they ended up forming the environment for living organisms that grew to become self-aware.
gods even after all these years - this is still one of my fav songs.. even in dark times - bright side of life might pick you up.. but this.. this just puts everything thing into prespective?
Boy oh boy, this song will learn ya some humility in short order! Seriously. as crazy as I am about "Life of Brian" as a whole, this particular piece is my favorite bit of Monte Python's movie work. (Since this view has always been held in disdain by friends, I was pleased as punch when Eric Idle was quoted a few years ago as saying that among his compositions this was his favorite.)
Never have we needed this song more than in 2024.... thanks, Monty Python!
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown...
I KNOW RIGHT?!
Preach!
You said that right brother! I nailed him good!
Just about to say that it's more relevant today. Peace and love all✌️ (caribou nibbling the croquet hoops)
This has to be my favorite Monty Python song EVER!
mine is "Always look on the bright side of life" from " Life of Brian"
@@johnwmendenhall9896 that's my second and my 3rd is the lumberjack song from Flying Circus
☝️all of the above😎
🎶The Camelot Song🎶 from The Holy Grail gets honorable mention...but remember:
'Tis a silly place.🤣
Remember: Every sperm is sacred 😂
R.I.P Terry Jones. No one could play a woman like you.
Imagine this being his obituary...
@@andreyv.vieira521 he'd love it
Not even a roman
@@andreyv.vieira521 just as long as there's spam
Brian's mom.
My dad used to sing this to me as a lullaby when I was a kid.
I can still recite it.
... I have a damn cool dad.
Hell yea you do!
Did he edit that last line? Great dad either way!
I did the same for my daughter.
My mom used to play this album and I remember I used to go around singing every sperm is sacred when I was like 7
@@shnpio oh my gOD
Nothing can cheer you up faster than Eric Idle coming out of your fridge in a pink tux and singing :)
oh god i love monty python
I love that the quip about "there's bugger here down on earth" is accompanied by doing something that could endanger one's life... :P
It's why my milk went bad a week early. :(
true dat
gaming nerd innit doe .Eric Idle at his very best which is what he is x
I always found this song incredibly moving. And then I would get mad at myself for crying during a Monty Python song. But I've made peace with it now.
The song is very moving. It makes you feel insignificant. That heals you. Same as you look at mountains and stars. You feel insignificant. Your issues are even smaller. That is healing. It is a song against depression and anxiety.
OP, completely with you. It’s good to make peace 😅
Nice to stumble on this comment as I tear up listening to this. Not sure why I am tearing up. But I am.
you are not alone!@@EnricoPallazo
It's Pure Genius - I post it to Flat Earthers and Explain that Monty Python understood the nature of space better than them 40 Years ago
"And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in spaceCause there's bugger-all down here on Earth"
Hits the nail on the head, really.
Peter Andersson Tumblr is evidence theres bugger all down here in earth
you are DAMN right!
well... i think he is speaking about the people who voted "leave" and 55% of americans... and all non-atheists
As a SU and IZ fan
Yes
Definitely
Absolutely
That's how I now say bye.
I don't get that when I open my fridge. It's just flames and a voice says Zuul
+Mark Oglesby who you gonna call
1fifaworldcuplover2
A Realtor. Ain't nobody wanna live with that!
Velno Onlev Oh very good.
zuul motherf***** zuul
mfw
(0_0) fuck this shit I'm out.
*slowly closes fridge door*
I don't think Eric Idle's talents as a songwriter and lyricist get nearly enough appreciation. The guy did unit conversion until he found lyrics that worked.
At least he finally wrote a Broadway show and got recognized for it
12,000,000 miles a minute was lovely.
Totally. Wish he hadn't had done that I Like Chinese song though.
@@MikusMusik twas a product of its time to be sure.
You should have seen him in The Mikado. He did a wonderful job singing there!
There's something in Idle's voice that is so soothing, especially in the Galaxy's Song. Just like a father reassuring his child. I love it.
Also in this one :) ua-cam.com/video/p9PiqCeLEmM/v-deo.html
RIP Terry Jones, this is old but is still funny as hell
It’s not quite old. It’s feeling better. It feels happy!
Don't matter if it's old, so long as it's timeless!
And true
Old school ... the best school ... Pepperidge Farm remembers:)
Terry Gilliam
I’ve loved this song forever, but always thought of it as a quick little ditty, sung in a minute. Actually, it’s a very complex, seven stanza long, incredibly clever song full of mind blowing facts, that is written by a bloody genius! All the Python’s are/ were one of a kind, amazingly talented artists. RIP Terry Jones!
That last line is just about the most accurate thing there will ever be.
I sometimes wonder if our planet is just a really crappy reality TV show on galactic cable.
@@povnw8985 or just a really accurate simulation jacked into our brains.
@@gangrenousgandalf2102 That just seems too awesome to be true, but one can dream.
Funny how we all feel the same about others
@Jonathan Gray ; Because that's one small step for man.....
Last time I was at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, they had this clip displayed on a monitor, in a continuous loop, in the astronomy section.
Even the giant green space vagina?
well they're scientists, so basically not real americans.
If you go to the Woodstock Museum, they have the South Park Hippies episode playing on a continuous loop as well.
Dan Magoo I find that hard to believe that a museum had a video with a space vagina.....yes I’m calling you a liar
Our phyiscs teacher showed us this in class once. It always stuck with me that he tried to cover and talk over the use of the word "bugger" but freely let the rest of the song play through.
Eric Idle and John Cleese did a show in my city some years ago. Eric sang this song during the show and it was amazing. He sounded almost like the original song, so little had changed though he was many years older, he sang this clear, steady, and If I wasnt watching him live, I could almost imagine it was a studio recording. It was the best part of the show imo.
I can't tell if this is supposed to make me feel insignificant or make me feel good to be alive
Its supposed to make you feel better by showing you how insignificant your problems are. Thats whats it about in the context atleast. Try to find the organ donor sketch from their movie meaning of life. Its the prequel to this song.
David Copithorne The key line is 'how amazingly unlikely is your birth'. The sheer fact of your existence is a massive plus. In addition, I'm not living in the middle of a civil war, or suffering an incurable disease. Things could be worse.
David Copithorne Both.
cobaltno51 Exactly what I was thinking! When you remember how much space there is around you, it makes all your problems seem much smaller. I watch this every time I feel stressed. :)
cobaltno51 You don't need your liver, do you?
this is fucking art.
RainAngel111 not just art........IT'S GENIUS!!!!!!
R. Kidd definately the art of genius' :)
RainAngel111 which in entirely different than regular art.
dZ Thane or possibly the genius of art :)
RainAngel111 No this isn't fucking art. This is fucking ART!
His singing voice is pure comfort.
This song, and the movie, helped keep me alive during the most depressing point in my life. I fell out of my seat laughing during the restaurant scene. For some reason the swinging watch fob(on a large screen) sent me into a laughing fit that I couldn't stop. It was a beautifully funny touch.
"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space because there's bugger all down here on earth!"
Fuck me ain't that the truth.
34 minuets ago? here from the election are we?
OfficiallyANerd
Nope, but the sentence is still relevant,
Whoami691 we elected Trump as president. So I'm gonna go ahead ahead and say yeah.
So... can we have your liver, then?
I read this as it played by chance lol
Eric Idol is my idle.
+Ian Lass you think about Eric idle in a car that's not moving?
+Bob Shatner Yes, but can he have your liver?
+Ian Lass What an Idle idea
+Bob Shatner I see from reading these comments that the devil makes work for Idle hands...
+Bob Shatner Idol worshipper.
Next time my mom asks why do I open the fridge so much, I'll tell her "I'm expecting a man in a pink suit to drop by and sing me a song"
NothingPosted905 you and me both man
NothingPosted905 What about the part where his friend takes your liver?
shakescakes297 Then consider me liverated.
NothingPosted905 "Liverated" That is a word of Shakespearean caliber, my friend.
Coldkill2001 Why thank thee!
I love the way Eric Idle says "expanding"
I was just gonna comment about that lol!
Ex-spain-ding 😂
im from south-east london and thats how a lot of people say it there
Expaaaanding an expaaanding
I really needed this song, especially right now
donating your liver ey?
me too
Noasphere the timing is perfect, the gov just passed a new law concerning organ donation so yeah I'm donating my liver :P
The entire world needs this song, RIGHT NOW !!!
With love and affection and genuine sadness at the passing of the genius Terry Jones.
...one of the two funniest 'Terrys' to ever Python this earth. Thanks for all the laughs, mate..
Writer, actor, director, ranconteur, wit and gentleman. A true Renaissance Man. We shall not see his like again.
Whos the other one?
My uncultured ass is thinking Pratchet, or Crews
Gilliam, goddammit
@@willfetters9903 got it. I didnt catch the "Python" this earth :P
I think he might have meant Terry Bollea a.k.a. Hulk Hogan.
Good bye Miss Brown.
Who's cutting onions
❤️
Finally got her liver.
All of us are
@@SerbAtheist I hope they sauteed the onions. maybe a hint of paprika and a handful of thyme?
Happy 80th Birthday, Eric Idle!
And still going strong ❤️
@@Annagramma-u7x when I was 7. I watched "Casper" and "Wind in the Willows" and never knew it was the same man lol. 🙂
My daughter and I are seeing him on Wednesday.
I love the way he says "expanding".
That's the cockney accent for you :P You'll also hear a small twang in "standing" :D
I'm terrified of visiting anywhere in the UK as I'm going to damn well expect to see men in house dresses, curlers, and speaking cockney. People in school thought I was some Gaijin japan-ophile because I watched anime, fuck that I never wanted to be a pilot in a giant robot, I wanted to be in a Monty Python sketch. Get chased down by a knight with a rubber chicken, or told to shut my gob. But no. I live in Fucking Oklahoma. Red dirt and tornadoes, cows, rodeos. Yeah this place sucks so much that people strap themselves to pissed-off bulls and see who can ride the longest without losing their hat.
Expaynding
Expænding
@@OldSkullInn Love it :)
I don't know what it is about this song, but I find it very soul cleansing. I find myself listening to it when I feel overwhelmed by the world around me.
Probably the last few lines, just remember, there better be intelligent life somewhere up in space, because there is truly bugger all down here on earth.
agreed. me too
Don’t sweat the small stuff (it’s all small stuff)
I love the way it's presented in the movie, just trying to convince her to give up her liver then he says "listen to this" and a guy comes out of a refrigerator and starts singing lol
...How long has he been there
it's best to not apply logic to Monty python
+Bryce Hubscher Monty python smashes reality and logic to a bloody pulp and creates its own, with crayon,sheer bloody brilliance and one centuries worth of coke
Then how do you explain the wingspan of a sparrow? Checkmate.
i like how pointless it makes you feel
R.I.P. Terry Jones and thank you very much for everything
This song was well before it’s time, and the figures and concepts are amazingly accurate for the time of the song... Plus, Eric Idle is one of the funniest and most talented men who has ever lived.
The best song ever written.
My 10yr old son used to sing this song word for word some 37 yrs ago LOL
He was -27?
I saw this movie when I was still a child. Just watched it again tonight and this song cured my depression!
I listen to this song whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed or depressed, because it really does bring me comfort.
its funny how scientists call this song out for being inaccurate so often these days. But as Eric Idle says, it was accurate at the time the song was written/performed to the best of human knowledge. Absolutely guarantee that if they rewrote it to todays understanding it too would be inaccurate in 10-15 years.
let the bloody nit-pickers have their fun.
Meanwhile, the hair band Europe sang "we're heading for Venus with so many lightyears to go" in their song called The Final Countdown. Good job, considering there's around 1.5 AU there at its farthest... there are 63241 AU in a lightyear. Talk about taking a wrong turn.
The only inaccuracy is that instead of 100 billion stars. There's 200 billion according to modern science. I passed my astronomy final by memorizing this song
@@flatline42 thank you very much for linking that! Really interesting to read.
Some of the figures are within a good boundary. They took a few liberties to help fit the meter of the song.
This makes me tear up and get choked up instantly. I love this song and the feeling it gives me but I’m fighting back tears every single time. Just one of those songs.
Thd scene in this movie where they cut out terry gilliams liver is one of the funniest fuckin things i have ever seen, this is without a doubt the best monty python film
"I'm using it!"
I come here a couple of times a year to listen to this song.
so true it's the same for me
Whenever anyone asks me what my favorite song is, i tell them this. The last line of the song is the most reassuring line ever written in musical history (to me anyway): "So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth, and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space cause there's bugger all down here on earth"
Exactly! I love that line.
Week. A couple times a week
honestly this is one of the purest songs written by Eric idle and my favourite
My entire school sang this.
Every day.
For more than 5 years.
And they still sing it.
And I will never forget it.
Ever. ._.
Good, you shouldn't forget it.
This has been my go to bad day song for my adult life. It's made many rough days end with a laugh, as they all should. 💖
I know this has been on here for years, but I just have to pile on and say: This is an absolutely splendid, brilliant song. It's one of two of MP's best tunes (the other being "Every Sperm Is Sacred" ... both from the same movie!). It's truly Eric Idle at his very best. This song is not only outstanding musically; the whole thing is also substantially accurate. It makes me grateful to be alive, while also helping me keep everything into perspective. I just adore it.
Anyone else remember how this came after a really dark scene when they ripped that one dude's organs out because they needed a donor?
... I love Monty Python!
...can we have your liver, then? (live organ transplants, bud)
LittleDogTurds Such a dark scene, I love it XD
Deepdarkbasement So do I, the monty python team is great at turning dark scenes into pure comedy ingeniousness!
LittleDogTurds
"wel, im sort of using it at the moment." xD
When I was 16 and they asked if I wanted to be an organ donor that was the first thing to pop into my noggin..
This is exactly the song I needed to put things into perspective. Thank you all of you wonderful actors. I was lucky enough to have a mum and a dad who were permissive enough to let me see things like Monty Python in my youth, and it has definitely helped me through some tough times.
This song almost single handedly (add 2-3 extra songs in there mainly always looks on the bright side of life) kept me alive from 17-19. I love this tune.
I know this is going to get buried in the sea of comments but this is the song my uncle, Mike, wanted played at his funeral and a lot of the people there were confused but I was just thinking that things like these were exactly why I loved my uncle Mike. ❤
Don’t know him but … I miss you Mike. I pray you where made a star in the galaxy. 💫
So, was the song played?
@@marjetacedilnik8622 I think it was as the op said “a lot of the people there was confused” after mentioning about the song.
It was my uncle that introduced me to this movie so we have something in common
Reign in perpetuity, Mike!
1:55 One Of the most clever & beautiful key changes ever, and it's in a comedy Python song!
A man comes out of a fridge with no warning or preamble, sings a little show tune, then it's right back into the fridge with no explanation ever given. :) I love Monty Python.
A.M. there is an explanation it is to convince people to give up their livers
Well you have to admit..... that's the best analogy for life on earth within the context of the universe.
@@brendanmccabe8373 But I'm still using it!
Classic 👌 The final lines of this song sums up the current situation on earth.
This song is so brilliant, the world as a whole hasn’t yet recognized its brilliance. One day, they will. Some of us do now, that’s why we’re all here, isn’t it? Well, one day, the rest of the world will catch up. It may take several more generations, but this song will be remembered on a much larger scale later down the road. I just know it.
They cut off the best part:TJ: "Makes you feel sort of insignificant"JC: "Yeah.....can we have your liver, then?"TJ: "All right, you talked me into it"JC: "ERIC!!"
'Bring out yer dead...'
i wish eric idel lived in my fridge to give funny songs every morning
Download all his songs and put a Bluetooth speaker in your fridge.
David Wührer you are actually a genius
jayden o'donnell
Thank you :-)
i actually want to do that now
Me too. That’ll help me through the day.
Monty Python brought us such delicious silliness. Still helping us to let go in tough times. We love you, Eric Idle, terry Jones and company ❤️
This has kept me humming happily during several sad times in my life.
GALAXY SONG SONGTEXT
Whenever life gets you down Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough...
Just, remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our galaxy itself, contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us its just three thousand light years wide
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point
We go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth
Ignacio de la Vega Encinas hbt
Omitted from this video:
Now, can I have your liver?!
Try singing this to the tune of Yakko’s Universe.
@Büşra Ertaş will be here. 😍
Thanks a lot! Ur amazing 😉
After 30 years of knowing the song and 15 of being a bassist it is only now that I notice how awesome the bassline in this song is!
Such a brilliant and beautiful ditty. Idle is amazing.
2:31 Eric Idle bumps his head when he goes back in the fridge lol.
Rip Terry Jones, this was one of my favorite scenes of yours!
Eric Idle's character reminds me of Gene Wilder in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I learned more from this song than all of high school.
Enjoy the wonders of the universe, Terry. You'll be dearly missed.
Life of Brian will always be my favorite Python film, but this one is probably their most unique movie, and holds a special place in my heart.
I love this bc it describes exactly what I do when frustrated with humans: think about the things as far off from humans as possible. Space is the ultimate!
RIP Terry, you brilliant, beautiful woman.
R.I.P. Terry Jones, you will be sorely missed. And thank you for what you gave us. This is a classic piece, very well done. Terry just rocks that dress!
Whenever life gets you down Mrs Brown.
My mother was Mrs Brown. She passed away at the age of 48 from cancer when i was just 18. That was 35 years ago, but this song makes me feel better about my loss.
Cheers Monty Python 👍🦶🎪
Sorry about your Mom. But we'll all meet her some day.
@@thefrontpage Very witty
😢 you are a legend my friend
@@anthonycallanan6540 I appreciate you taking the time to send me a very kind and heartwarming comment. I'm no legend, but thanks anyway. You're a geniune, kind person. Take care friend.
This film was fantastic to just in a small way actually give something that you could call the meaning of life and make it the funniest thing ever
I love the clever lyrics and tune. The pythons have been prophetic on more than one occasion.
This song and the video with it are simply brilliant. Like all of Monty Python.
*_It's really sad that Terry Jones died at the age of 77 in January 22, 2020. We'll going to miss you. RIP._*
I didn't know he'd passed so recently...
May he rest in peace. His influence on Britain and the world as a whole will never be forgotten.
God I wish that were me
@Mr. Friendship I thought you only listened Beethoven, Mr. Alex Delarge
*_If only he had died at the age of 77 in January 23, 2020 instead._*
Jokes aside, it really is sad. Still, this song makes me feel more like celebrating his birth than mourning his death.
Thankfully it wasn't from the coronavirus
Anybody who ever worked in a planetarium.. knows this song very well, as walk in music, or part of the show,, or walk out music.
R I P Terry Jones..
Watching, and adoring, this song, for the first time in my life, tonight. It took me 32 years of living on this Earth to know Monty Python and it totally worth it. I am totally enjoying them.
I think in my very humble opinion some of the point of the song is being missed it is after all entertainment written with humour. I am not sure that t is was written and performed for the dissection of fact checkers but more to put a smile on our faces and perhaps it was more meant to tell us not to take life or ourselves too seriously because we are in the grand scheme of things quite insignificant!
Holy Grail was my first introduction... probably when I was four or five. That movie will always hold a special place in my heart.
Classic tune I love the end bit.
Thank you to all of the Pythons.
They were the greats, I never get tired of them, and love this song.
So I never seen a single Monty Python movie, but I heard alot of these songs and must say....Eric Idle is amazing when it comes to singing, its like hearing Jim Dale do a Book on Tape or something its so calm so genuine, cheers to you Mr Idle! Love your work and yes I must watch a M.P sometime to experience this in full!
Beautiful... Just beautiful
Bugger all down here on Earth. Truer words never were sung.
this song is surprisingly genuine and sweet
0:22 Cleese standing awkwardly waiting as they walk into space
no, goes still as he blends, then fades to shade with the background, eh ?
True because he blended in with the background until the next cutscene.
Truer words were never spoken(sung)
I always tear up at this 💜
I always come back to this video whenever life gets me down, it makes all my problems seem small :p
same :)
Love it, feeling down is impossible with that song in your head!
I honestly enjoy this far more than bright side. Despite it just being done to convince someone to give up their liver, there's just something about it that makes you truly appreciate the beauty of this universe.
This FAR more touching than 'The Fault In Our Stars', any day of the week...
Even the title is dumb. The only fault in the stars would be where they ended up forming the environment for living organisms that grew to become self-aware.
@@davidk7529 I am confuses as to which one you are talking about
Anyone here after hearing of Terry Jones passing away? R.I.P. man, thanks for the laughs!!!!!!!
One of their very best songs.
I really needed this classic today.
I come back here and replay this every once in a while! It's so great!
This song is incredibly comforting on soso many levels
What a great song.😄
I sing this to my 3 year old daughter at bed time. She loves it.
Never fails to put a smile on my face :’)
This one always makes me feel good and happy!
gods even after all these years - this is still one of my fav songs.. even in dark times - bright side of life might pick you up.. but this..
this just puts everything thing into prespective?
What episode of Dr.Who is this?
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+Jacob Warren You just won the internet for me today!
+Jacob Warren I don't know, but that's one kick-ass TARDIS he enters from at the beginning.
+Jacob Warren someone have to ask BBC to make an episode where the doctor accidentaly walks out of a fridge, its a perfect DW scene xD
fuck now I REALLY want Eric Idle to play the Doctor
Boy oh boy, this song will learn ya some humility in short order!
Seriously. as crazy as I am about "Life of Brian" as a whole, this particular piece is my favorite bit of Monte Python's movie work.
(Since this view has always been held in disdain by friends, I was pleased as punch when Eric Idle was quoted a few years ago as saying that among his compositions this was his favorite.)