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Quarks and Electrons

from Flying Spaghetti Music by Monty Harper

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Every chunk of matter can be broken into parts
But there are no smaller pieces than quarks and electrons
Everything we touch, everything we see
Is different combinations of quarks and electrons

Formed by the Big Bang
Cooled into atoms of hydrogen and helium
Forged by stars into Carbon and Oxygen
Blown away by supernovae, strewn across the universe,
Coalesced again into bodies like Planet Earth

Forming into patterns that can run around and replicate
Evolving into thinking things that know themselves and contemplate
Fourteen billion years they’ve been coming along
Now quarks and electrons wrote this song!

Quarks and electrons
Quarks and electrons

Every chunk of matter can be broken into parts
But there are no smaller pieces than quarks and electrons
Everything we touch, everything we see
Is different combinations of quarks and electrons

Other stuff is unseen
It has to be there somewhere when we add up all the gravity
We call it dark matter and it's pulling on the galaxies
And something else is pushing, making everything expand
We call it dark energy 'cause we don't understand

Whatever that stuff is it makes up nearly all the universe
Just 4% of everything is stars, planets, moons and us
Yet even though it seems we're only tagging along,
Quarks and electrons wrote this song!

Quarks and electrons
Quarks and electrons

Quarks and electrons forming into atoms
Evolving into DNA and complicated proteins
Proteins make neurons and neurons make a brain
The brain is the organ that can reason and explain about

Quarks and electrons
Quarks and electrons
Quarks and electrons wrote this song!

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from Flying Spaghetti Music, released April 21, 2015
“Quarks and Electrons”
by Monty Harper

Drums - Rob “Dr. Rock” Martin
Drums recorded at Bell Labs in Norman, OK

Keyboard Coolness - Ben Sutter

Other instruments, voices - Monty Harper

Mastering and help with mixing - James Coffey

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Monty Harper Stillwater, Oklahoma

Monty Harper is a children's musician in Stillwater, OK. He performs for elementary schools and libraries, helps kids write their own songs in workshops and residencies, does informal science education, and writes songs for clients.

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