Five and a Half Minutes

Every 5 1/2 minutes, The universe expands 4 miles. And every time I blink, Another child enters the world. The world has 6 1/2 billion people This year, And there are 8 million people In this city on this island, But right here, right now Somehow you're sitting here. I may not ever catch my breath no matter how I try. And I may never understand how every single day We breathe 23 thousand times. Because watching your chest rise and fall, The numbers don't add up - When all we are's 100 trillion cells, 206 bones, 5 quarts of blood, 45 miles of nerves nerves nerves And 100 thousand hairs And too many organs And 60 thousand miles of arteries. We must have been made by a man 'Cause a woman would have made us more economically. I don't know what that means - All I know is that I've seen this scene some years ago And I would swear I'm watching from the stands. And I would swear I know A second before you reach for her hand. Feels like it's some old movie, But the script's no good and the girl's no beauty. There's the evidence - More facts - But there won't ever be a science of The way you find or keep or measure love. How do you find or keep or measure love?