Star Stuff from Star Stuff by Chris Harris
Everything begins with hydrogen.
In the first few millions of years after the Big Bang, that's pretty much all there was, anywhere. This song gives the recepe for what happened next; you have to smoosh hydrogen nuclei together inside a star to get any of the heavier elements, and thanks to something called binding energy, even that process stops working by the time you're making atoms of iron (which really isn't that heavy an element).
To get the heavier stuff, you literally have to blow up a star. More on that later...
Tracklist
| 1. | Star Stuff | 4:35 |
Lyrics
Hydrogen.
It all begins with hydrogen.
Hydrogen plus hydrogen gives heliium
Helium plus helium plus helium gives carbon
Carbon plus helium gives oxygen
Oxygen plus helium gives neon
Everything's made from star stuff
Everything's made from star stuff
Neon plus helium gives magnesium
Magnesium plus helium gives silicon
Silicon plus helium gives sulphur
Sulphur plus helium gives argon
Neon fusion takes a year
Silicon, a day
Argon plus helium gives calcium
Calcium plus helium gives titanium
Titanium plus helium gives chromium
Chromium plus helium gives iron
Iron is the ash
that's left from burnt-out stars
Credits
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I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.