European Debt Galaxy

With heartfelt apologies to Monty Python's "Galaxy Song" (from "Meaning of Life")



The Euro Debt Galaxy Song

Just remember that you're standing on a debt that's just evolving
And revolving at 3 trillion euros a year
That's interest of 5k a second, so it's reckoned
A sum that is the drain of all our power
That sum and you and me, and all the money that we can see
Is sucked out at 400 mill a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 440 bp
Down the plughole we call the ECB

Our debt itself contains 100 million billion loans
It's 100,000 light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle, duration three to seven
But out by us it's just one year wide
We're 30,000 light-years from repayment's final point
As we roll it forward 200 million years
And our debt is only one of millions of billions
In this quantitatively easing universe

The periphery debt keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
Twelve billion trillion a minute and that's the fastest print there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How unlikely your money you will ever see
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere in the world
Because there's bugger all at the ECB