Theme song from the TV series, 2007
Words and music by Ed Robertson
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago
Expansion started. Wait.
The Earth began to cool
The autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history unraveled when the mystery
All started with the big bang! (Bang!)
Since the dawn of man is really not that long
As every galaxy was born in less time
Than it takes to sing this song.
A fraction of a second, then the elements were made.
The bipeds stood up straight,
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
They tried to leap, but they were late
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
The oceans and Pangea
See ya wouldn’t wanna be ya
Set in motion by the same big bang
It all started with the big bang
It’s expanding every hour
But one day it will pause
And start to go the other way
Collapsing ever inward
We won’t be here, it wont be heard
Our best and brightest figure
That it’ll make an even bigger bang
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
Debating how we’re here
They’re catching deer (we’re catching viruses)
Religion or astronomy, Descartes or Deuteronomy
It all started with the big bang
Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
It all started with the big bang
It all started with the big bang
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: