The Universe is an Atom

Verse 1

I was counting stars on my ceiling

Small town kid with a borrowed lens

Then a teacher drew a circle on the board

And the circle had no end

Electrons humming like a tiny choir

Every orbit just a bigger ring

I stopped believing small was small

Pre-Chorus

We're spinning inside something small

We're spinning inside something small

Chorus

The universe is an atom

And I am somewhere in between

The universe is an atom

Spinning quiet spinning clean

Every speck a solar system

Every system just a speck

The universe is an atom

And I haven't figured out the rest

Verse 2

My brother says it's all just numbers

My mother says don't think so loud

But I keep drawing rings around my knuckles

Watching tiny worlds go round

If a galaxy is just a nucleus

Then maybe I'm a particle of light

Bouncing off the walls of something vast

Pre-Chorus

We're spinning inside something small

We're spinning inside something small

Chorus

The universe is an atom

And I am somewhere in between

The universe is an atom

Spinning quiet spinning clean

Every speck a solar system

Every system just a speck

The universe is an atom

And I haven't figured out the rest

Bridge

Maybe up is down

Maybe big is small

Maybe I'm the whole thing

Maybe I'm nothing at all

Maybe up is down

Maybe small is all

Chorus

The universe is an atom

And I am somewhere in between

The universe is an atom

Spinning quiet spinning clean

Every speck a solar system

Every system just a speck

The universe is an atom

And I haven't figured out the rest