Everybody Knows
(based on the Leonard Cohen song)

[Verse 1]
A calculator knows that the rice that’s loaded
4000 tons in a barge on the water
Makes 200 billion grains imploded
That’s a number to tell your daughter
The number of stars that do shine
In this here ga-la-xy of thine
We have stardust toes
The cosmologist knows

[Verse 2]
The physicist knows from the barge outflung
That for each grain it’s 10 metres apart
Each grain a star with planets outhung
200 billion the number by heart
Splayed out in arms from London to Cardiff
Making a spiral galaxy star glyph
The Milky Way flows
Everybody knows

[Verse 3]
The modeller knows that on this miniature scale
The astronomer knows with galaxy art
That they all the way to the Sun prevail
Distanced from London to Cape Town apart
100 billion galaxies outspread
Everybody knows this does in your head
The universe grows
Hubble knows

[Chorus]
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
 
[Verse 4]
Theoreticians know that you can’t get out
Once you approach this vacuum cleaner
To your great consternation no doubt
A black hole makes you leaner and leaner
Spaghetti is what they call it
When through a needle you do fit
The horizon is closed
Everybody knows

[Verse 5]
If nothing but the energy crossed
Everybody knows that this gets rough
‘Cause all our information is lost
How can black holes go lose their stuff?
Nobody knows if it’s pure illusion
The holographic event infusion
Where matter goes
Nobody knows

[Verse 6]
And nobody knows that love is the core
Nobody knows consciousness is central
Nobody knows that of all we adore
It’s our love that’s the most influential
Nobody knows we are all connected
That by what we do, all else affected
With this disclosed
Everybody knows

[Chorus]
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows