Key: C
Introduction:
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Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
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Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
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The Earth began to cool,
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The autotrophs began to drool,
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Neanderthals developed tools,
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We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
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Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
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That all started with the big bang!
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"Since the dawn of man" is really not that long,
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As every galaxy was formed in less time than it takes to sing this song.
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A fraction of a second and the elements were made.
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The bipeds stood up straight,
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The dinosaurs all met their fate,
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They tried to leap but they were late
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And they all died (they froze their asses off)
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The oceans and pangea
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See you, wouldn't wanna be you
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Set in motion by the same big bang!
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It all started with the big bang!
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It's expanding ever outward but one day
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It will cause the stars to go the other way,
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Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it wont be hurt
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Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!
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Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
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Debating out while here they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
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Religion or astronomy, Encarta, Deuteronomy
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It all started with the big bang!
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Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
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It all started with the big bang!
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It all started with the big bang!
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