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We're Stardust, It's Great!

from Future No Brainers by Whipped

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On an abstract level, this song is about the escalating tension between the notions of science and how these ideas are increasingly at odds with views that have been passed down for millennia. More specifically it's about how people tend to look out into the night sky and feel small instead of large. It remarks on how so many people adhere to mythological origin stories to derive purpose in their lives rather than rejoicing in the infinitesimal odds that we have made the journey from being elements of an exploded to star to beings pondering our own existence. The chorus drives home the fact that we squander the unthinkable awesomeness of a black hole on everyday hyperbolic statements, highlighting just one example of how we take our privileged place in the universe for granted.

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absurd, senseless, pointless yet commonplace
vacant, trifling, a worthless throw-away account
we describe our daily lives
abusing allegories of atomic size
navigating a traffic jam
becomes escaping gravity

it’s funny how these black hole metaphors are plain
(no way)
so day to day and so trivially mundane

what we have here in our lives is a gap
in a spot of heart, a missing body part
it’s possible we’re lines of code
sentient scripts, ones and zeros
or we’re atoms bouncing around
neither one is less profound

it’s funny how these black hole metaphors are plain
(no way)
so day to day and so trivially mundane
why not call everything we know stardust?
it seems so mystically insane
so elementary, so fake

we are part of this universe
(every atom)
we are in this universe
(in our bodies)
the universe is in us
(came from a star that exploded)

the universe is in us
(you are stardust, that exploded)

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from Future No Brainers, released May 13, 2014

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Dad rock for queers, or queer rock for dads

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