Grains of Sand

My first science book was called “How Things Behave”. I am sure that book has been revised several times by now and scientists have found a use for pretty well everything in the Earth we inhabit.

We can measure time with various devices we have invented.

The Hour Glass, with GRAINS OF SAND passing from the upper chamber to the lower one, needs an operator to turn the glass so that the next phase of life- measurement can begin. The Clock, with a coiled spring providing the motive power for the hands needs another spring to provide control. The hands of the clock have given way to a display powered by an electric cell with another GRAIN of SAND, a Quartz Crystal, providing the control.

But, TIME is still a bit of a mystery, and how best to spend it is a big question. More worrying still, for us BLOKES, is the possibility that the operator of that great hour glass in the sky might turn out to be a female!

Intro

You don’t have to believe me

Take it from geology

Human time is like a grain of sand

Verse 1

Hear that clock. From tick to tock

So little time, yet what a shock

When evening comes and the light is gone

Still so many a task undone

Chorus

Grains of sand, no glass can measure moments lost we ought to treasure

Verse 2

No more spring within our clock

A billion years to make that rock

On your finger, under your feet

Even in a paper sheet

Chorus: Grains of sand…to Verse 3

What is time and what is space?

Questions for the human race

The scientists’ answer, DNA

Reveals a quiz for another day

Chorus: Grains of sand…to Verse 4

Find your mind, its depth unfold

Body and soul, the truth is told

Life goes on from world to world

Waste not this one seeking gold

Chorus: Grains of sand…to guitar Coda behind…

Are we here to qualify? Do we get another try?

When she looks you in the eye

Will she say, “Well done”?