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What Are the Odds? Lyrics by Jeff Bowen

2012

[SUSAN}
Four point fifty-seven billion years ago
A tiny speck appears out in space
In the black sits a quietly spinning sphere
Where something whack is about to take place
[HEIDI]
What are the odds
That this planet would be the perfect distance from the Sun
What are the odds
Scientists say they're about an octillion to one
The first amino acid sits alone in a puddle
Feeling lonely and somewhat incomplete
And when he least expects it, he suddenly finds himself
Metabolizing from the heat
[JEFF & HUNTER]
And then to his surprise, he suddenly multiplies
And every millisecond, he celebrates a new birth
[ALL]
And soon he makes his way through all of the oceans
He's a part of every plant and dinosaur on the Earth (spoken: Dinosaur!)
That amino acid is the key that will open the door
What are the odds
That all this prehistoric fauna gets to have so much fun
What are the odds
Wikipedia says a quinticillion-trillion to one
[HEIDI]
A stegosaurus roams around the planet's first chapter
Finding pretty flowers to munch
[SUSAN]
And a little baby super cute velociraptor
Will grow up to eat the steggy for lunch
[JEFF]
Unbeknownst to all of Planet Earth's beautiful creatures
Something horrible is closing in
[ALL]
A giant-ass rock crashes into Earth
And though it brings the end to an era
A new and bizarre one is about to begin
[HUNTER]
Hermit crabs and baby turtles start swimmin' round everywhere
And before you know it, there are lots of spunky monkeys that are swingin' through the jungle air
[JEFF]
The bumblebees start zoomin' around with the beetles and the dragonflies
And then lizards get together and invent the feather to become the birds in the sky
[SUSAN & HEIDI]
And then the turtles and the monkeys and the beetles and the birds dominate the biosphere mix
[ALL]
And soon the turtles and the monkeys and the beetles and the birds dominate the Billboard Hot 100 Charts
In 1966
[HUNTER]
[?]
The others runnin' rampant with the human bein'
[ALL]
And what are the odds that one girl and one guy
Would find one another and unify?
[JEFF & HUNTER]
A boy drives a hot rock and lives in Escondido
He turns twenty and he's ready to roll
[SUSAN & HEIDI]
A girl watched Mod Squad alone in Toledo
She too gets a hankering
[ALL (*SUSAN & HEIDI*, **JEFF & HUNTER**)]
That it's time to leave home
**So she leaves Ohio** *and he leaves Cali*
They head east to their new domains
The meet one night at a bowling alley
It's love at first sight at Fantasy Lanes
Then one night something happens to them
After sharing a molten french fry
This man and this woman get up on each other
Something starts to grow
And nine months later something new enters this world
And it opens its eyes
What are the odds
That we would give this world a [?] like a cinnamon bun
What are the odds
That we would get through Mussolini and Attila the Hun
What are the odds
That we would make it through Andrew Dice playing for a Dunn
What are the odds
Probably about an anjillion-kazillion to one
An anjillion-kazillion to one
Ann Jillian!
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Jeff Bowen

Jeff Bowen

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