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| Our whole universe was in a | |
| Then nearly fourteen billion years ago | |
| The earth | |
| The autotrophs | |
| Neanderthals | |
| We built a wall | |
| Math, science, history | |
| That all started | |
| 'Since the dawn of man' | |
| As every galaxy was formed | |
| A fraction of a second | |
| The bipeds | |
| The dinosaurs | |
| They tried to leap | |
| And they all died | |
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| The oceans | |
| See ya, | |
| Set in motion by | |
| It all started with the | |
| It's expanding ever outward | |
| It will cause the stars | |
| Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, | |
| Our best and brightest figure | |
| Australopithecus would really | |
| Debating out while here they're catching deer | |
| Religion or astronomy, | |
| It all started with | |
| Music and mythology | |
| It all started with | |
| It all started with | |
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