Sand

Sand. You've been to the beach. Y'know, rubbed your feet in it on a sunny day.

Now try, try, as I am, to imagine that there are more stars in OUR GALAXY than every single grain of sand on Earth, times two million. TIMES TWO MILLION. Count them: one grain of sand, two grains of sand . . . until every grain on Earth has been accounted for. Then do it TWO MILLION TIMES MORE and believe you me, by the time you get to that point, the sun will be only a wistful memory and you will be very, very old.

Sand. Such a cosmic joke. But I try to include it in every song I ever write, because it always reminds me of the stars in the sky. They are literally one and the same.