A song inspired* by the book of the same name by the Bad Astronomer, Phil Plait, of the Bad Astronomy blog.

The book explores the various ways in which the human race could be rendered extinct by astronomical phenomena. It covers various astronomical events, such as asteroid impacts, supernovae explosions, solar flares and gamma ray bursts, among others. So does the song.

Musically its a return to my classic metal style, with a whole pile of short guitar solos to boot.

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* – by inspired I mean I completely plagiarised everything lyrical in the song from the book.

Lyrics:

Chorus:
Death from the skies
The ways we shall die
Time to say goodbye

Verse 1:
Up in the sky
It comes for us
All kinds of pain
Whole world aflame
One hundred percent
Chance of a hit
But we could stop
If we see it

Verse 2:
A star gets bright
Blinded by the light
Destroy the ozone
Topple the food chain
Further away
Burst of gamma rays
Lethal radiation
A new ice age

Verse 3:
Planets in the wrong place
We see nothing
Fall towards it
Spaghettification
A probe lands here
Robot arachnoids
Begin replication
Using all our stuff

Verse 4:
A few billion years
The sun gets bright
Becoming giant
Earth burnt to death
Then eventually
Everything expands
Particle decay
Universal heat death

Coda:
This too shall pass