Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) Lyrics

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Cover art for Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) lyrics by They Might Be Giants

I've submitted the corrected lyrics, but I think this "we have to pass this by the copyright owners" is a nonsense excuse for negligence, especially as the lyrics up there were just randomly submitted by some rando anyway. And they're WAY off.

The correct lyrics are:

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it's hot The sun is not A place where we could live But here on Earth There'd be no life Without the light it gives

We need its light We need its heat We need its energy Without the sun Without a doubt There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot The sun is so hot That everything on it is a gas Copper, iron, aluminum On the surface of the sun are all gas

The sun is large The sun is so large a million Earths could fit inside And yet the sun's just a middle-sized star

The sun is far away It's about ninety-three million miles away And that's why it looks so small!

But even when it's out of sight It shines both night and day

The sun gives heat The sun gives light The sunlight that we see The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-crushing machine The heat and light of the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees

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