Barenaked Ladies - Big Bang Theory

      [Verse]

     C       D              G   D/F#   Em
Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
            C                D         G         D/F#      Em
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
    C              D
The Earth began to cool,
    G          D/F#      Em
The autotrophs began to drool,
       C              D
Neanderthals developed tools,
           G          D/F#      Em
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
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Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries,
     C           D            G
That all started with the big bang!


[Verse]

           C       D              G   D/F#  Em
"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.
    C               D
The bipeds stood up straight,
    G              D/F#      Em
The dinosaurs all met their fate,
              C                  D
They tried to leap but they were late
             G          D/F#         Em
And they all died (they froze their asses off)
    C          D
The oceans and Pangea
        G             D/F# Em
See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya
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Set in motion by the same big bang!
       C                D   Am7
It all started with the big BANG!


[Bridge]

D       G             Em             Am7
It's expanding ever outward but one day
D        G                 Em           Am7
It will pause and start to go the other way,
Am7        D              Am7              D
Collapsing ever inward, we won't be here, it won't be heard
Am7           G/B                  C             D
Our best and brightest figure that it'll make an even bigger bang!


[Solo]

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[Verse]

C       D              G      D/F#      Em
Australopithecus would really have been sick of us
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Debating how we're here, they're catching deer (we're catching viruses)
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Religion or astronomy, Descartes or Deuteronomy
   C           D        G
It all started with the big bang!
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Music and mythology, Einstein and astrology
   C           D        G
It all started with the big bang!
   C           D        G
It all started with the big BANG!