Universe of Sand

from City Lights by Padraig O'Connor

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A song about that ancient Greek atomic theory that everything's made out of one thing, that still continues in the search for the elementary particle, the basic building block of the universe. Instead of an atom, a quark or a Higgs Boson, I chose a grain of sand, which is pretty small. And once upon a time, the estimate was that there were as many grains of sand as stars in the universe, although now it's more like one to ten. The song references Shakespeare's Hamlet, Galileo's telescope and Da Vinci's Vetruvian Man. It's an agnostic prayer. Ashes to ashes, sand to sand.

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lyrics

Take a grain of sand

Pick it up and just hold it in your hand

Take a minute to think about a man

In a universe made of sand

Ask me how I am

All my troubles are just like grains of sand

I hold on, but they´re slipping through my hands

In my own little world of sand

And I know when I die I will return to sand

What a piece of work is man

How he separates himself from the land

Spending all his days making aimless plans

Building castles made out of sand

And I know when I die I will return to sand

With a telescope in hand

I look up, but it´s hard to understand

How those stars are like little grains of sand

In a universe made of sand

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from City Lights, released November 21, 2018
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Padraig O'Connor Madrid, Spain

Padraig O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter based in Madrid, Spain.

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