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Terra Lumina

by Terra Lumina

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1.
Within the heart of every cloud And each and every cell There's a molecule With long and wild tales it can tell The basis of all life It's found in earth and sky and in ourselves Water's in the sky Where ever-hanging clouds float by Tilt your head back, free your mind To all the wondrous shapes you'll find Water's in the air It takes its form as vapor there Or in dew drops on the grass Solid, liquid, or a gas From the sky above our heads To the earth beneath our feet Over rocky river beds and to the sea Flowing through our bodies And within our every cell Absorbing heat Ascending to the sky from which it fell Return to the sky, evaporate and rise Bring life down to us all, precipitate and fall Throughout the universe we see This molecule's abundancy In planetary atmospheres In vapor clouds so far from here If all of life on this depends It's wonderful to comprehend The thought that we are not alone On this planet we call home Water flows with ease Making rivers, oceans, lakes, and streams But over time it can erode And help all things on Earth to grow Water's part of all Living things both great and small Any creature you can see Needs water just like you and me
2.
Have you ever pondered the movement of a star A planet or a galaxy up in the night sky Have you ever wondered why the sound of a siren Is constantly changing as it passes you by It's good to have many questions About the world that you face That's how all of human kind's Discoveries are made The sound of that siren and light of that star Both are ever changing, it depends on where you are In relation to the source of sound or light alike The frequency that you receive very well might Cause sound to become lower in pitch Or light to red-shift This change in observed frequency Found by Doppler, the physicist Just as the sounds of sirens change As they come and go The light from other galaxies Helps us come to know The universe is vast in size Growing all the time As shown by red-shifting light That's come to meet our eyes
3.
If I were a lowly photon I wouldn't weigh a single ounce I'd be a tiny massless little particle The smallest nature will allow And I'd be born within a stellar furnace In a far away star Sailing through the endless darkness Straight to where you are If I were a humble photon I'd be the smallest little thing If you tried to subdivide me You'll find I'm not made of anything And I'd be born within a stellar furnace In a far away star Sailing through the endless darkness Straight to where you are And I'd fly at the speed of light For a million years Before I finally arrived Through the atmosphere to land upon your eye If I were a lowly photon I wouldn't carry any charge Although you might confuse me with a proton They don't carry light from stars I'd be a gamma ray or x ray Or just a microwave Or infrared, or radio Or the light that we all know At times I'd act just like a particle Sometimes like a wave Plants could photosynthesize me I never would decay
4.
Rocks 03:28
The rock known as... Igneous is formed by molten magma As it cools, it could be Plutonic, intrusive Where magma's slowly coolin' Beneath the Earth's surface Or it could be volcanic, extrusive Red hot substance is blown from a mountain Felsic rock, ultrapotassic, Peraluminous, ultramafic Rocks are formed in so many different ways It just takes a couple hundred million days So next time you're out walking around Try to classify all the rocks that you have found The rock known as... Sedimentary tends to hold and carry All the resources that we use daily It's made of detritus, just dead organic matter and Evaporates, then compacted harder The rock known as... Metamorphic comes from other rocks It's smashed and heated under Earth's surface Caused by collision of tectonic plates Marble, gneiss, quartzite and slate
5.
Breathe In 03:18
Breathe in, breathe out We're still alive because O2's throughout Air due to plants and algae Water, light, and a breath Is all it takes for plants to make Their food and the air that we breathe From lowly grass to lofty trees All plants on Earth hold the key To all we eat, and all we breathe The source of all our energy Not all that we have On this Earth is what meets the eye Because all that's green keeps us alive
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Let's begin with the solar wind With photons sailing through the void A lonely vacuum where few have been From sun to earth where the dance begins A dance of light across the sky A vivid flowing glow on high A curtain drapes the mighty earth Sets the sky ablaze A wondrous incandescent burst Born from stellar rays A glow of green, or brown, or red From colliding oxygen A brilliant show of blue or red From energetic nitrogen Magnetospheric particles Colliding with this stream of light Ionizing molecules To bring about a wild sight
7.
When an aging massive star Has emptied all its store We witness from afar The power of the collapsing of its core The expansion that ensues Causes elements to fuse Sending them into the void From old creating new
8.
You've kept me down my whole life through But you've kept the earth spherical, too Well I could just fly to the moon If I could just overrule you But since you ain't goin' nowhere I'll make the best of your grip on me And everything 'Cause wherever I go you'll be waiting for me Gravity won't set you free But she forms all the planets and stars that we see Gravity's a beautiful thing That you cannot escape And I'd rather keep it that way Well you've got a hold of this delicate globe And it's quite a sight to behold To watch as it circles around Our sun as we're glued to the ground Well I've heard that you're slowing down time Curving space and then bending the light That's trying to keep a straight line On its journey to light up the sky If it weren't for you there wouldn't be stars No light in the darkness that travels so far Although we could fly so free Inside we would weaken and atrophy
9.
It all started with a molecule Four billion years ago In the early open oceans and tidepools Before the life that we have come to know Insects, trees, and animals Life began in a soup of chemicals If you let millions and millions of years pass Through the tree of life you'll come to us at last Evolution takes its time and slowly Works its wild ways with endless beauty Evolution tells the greatest story It's the way all life on earth has come to be A simple start to everything A single-cell would come to bring Trilobites and other living things In the time of Cambrian Life saw an explosion From single-cell to multi-cell And multi-cell to animal And animals began to crawl the land Then came the dinosaurs With dominance and mighty roars Who ruled the land for a hundred million years Then came an asteroid Almost all life was destroyed A quarter million years ago The ancestors of you and I The people you have grown to know Had finally arrived With our eyes and with our minds We learned so many things Looked deep within our past to learn Of how we came to be
10.
To understand the world around us And know the cosmos with less doubt To comprehend that there is something Instead of nothingness throughout If we're to make sense of it all Ask the "why" that matters most We should turn our focus inward To the smallest things that we can know For centuries great thinkers pondered How this world could be comprised Is there an underlying constant To the world before our eyes Ancient Greeks proposed a particle So infinitely small And they called these constructs atoms The smallest things of all From the structure of the atom All the elements are known And from elements come molecules As chemistry has shown First a nucleus sits densely In the center of a sphere And its core is protons bound to neutrons The atom's mass is mainly here About the nucleus buzz particles That are vastly smaller still Electrons with their minus charge In their orbitals they spin at large
11.
Ode to Pluto 02:23
You were found in 1930 But you've been around long before And everyone seemed to know your name A dwarf they now are calling you But you're still hung up in most kids' rooms We think of you very much the same Pluto, don't get too down Words are only words And you'll always be around Pluto, keep circling around the sun A couple hundred years and you'll be back where you'd begun Consider yourself lucky Five moons to keep you company With Charon to lead the whole crew Your days are six times longer And mass a fraction of our moon But that's what really makes you, you

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From melodysheep, the creator of Symphony of Science, comes an original album focused on the most awe-inspiring aspects of the natural world. Terra Lumina is a collection of folk/rock songs with themes including gravity, geology, photons, and the Doppler effect. A unique musical take on some of science's most amazing discoveries, from John D. Boswell and vocalist William Crowley.

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released December 18, 2012

TERRA LUMINA is John D. Boswell and William Crowley

All songs written, performed and recorded by TERRA LUMINA

Female vocals by Cara Alboucq // Cello by Zach Brown
Additional lyrics by Peter Pearsall // Additional guitar by Jordan Vessels

Artwork by Mat Hudson (Orphan Elliot) & Shogo Ota (Tireman Studio); layout by John D. Boswell

A melodysheep production

Produced by John D. Boswell, William Crowley, Brandon Sanders, Awakening Science Foundation, The SolSeed Movement, Ken Austin, Howard Herrick, Dr. Jon Cleland Host, David Staurset Mindresunde, Ben Tristem, Edouard Volle, & Simon & Tracey West
Mastered by Sage Audio

Special thanks to all our Kickstarter supporters,
friends, and family who made this project possible

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