This book is history This book is everything in you and me This book belongs to everyone This book belongs to everyone This book is as old as the universe As young as a baby born this minute This book is the story of all of us The story that we all write Everyone gets their name in the action The footnotes, the inlays, the margins Full colour plates mixed with black and white sketches From the minute to the infinite experience This is the book of the creatures and the bones Their DNA and traces fossilised in limestone This is the book - the record in the rings Of the weather back then, and did the songbirds sing? This is the book of the creatures and the bones Their DNA and traces fossilised in limestone This is the book of life Oh the story that we all write This book belongs to everyone (this book is history) This book belongs to everyone (this book) This book belongs to everyone (is everything in you and me) This book belongs to everyone