"Stuck to You (The Science Song)" by Josh Ritter

Here's a cute and clever little song which I had the great pleasure of hearing live once, but unforgivably and embarrassingly could not bring to mind with any clarity over coffee today. Try not to let it make you cry:

Well there's one thing, mama
I think you should know
It is not love that makes the flowers grow
But a complex electron-transfer process known as photosynthesis when
Chlorophyll reacts with the light of day
But since you're gone, the light has gone away

And there's one more thing, mama
I think that you'll find
It is not love that makes the stars shine
But the spontaneous combustion of superheated supercondensed gases in a process known as fusion that creates new elements when the time is
Ripe, but since you're gone, stars don't shine so bright

Oh, there's another thing mamma
I think i should confide
It is not love that will turn the tide
But the net difference in the gravitational pole between the earth and the moon
As it is acted out upon the waves
But since you're gone i feel washed away

I could have been a mathematician
Studied rockets for a living
Would have worked out better in the end
But to get more specific
I rigged every law of physics
To bring you back to me again

And there's one last thing, i tell you if i can
It is not love that makes a non-stick frying pan
But a top secret trademark conglomerated, most likely carcinogenic, polyyrethanic compound spread in a microthin layer over a negatively charged alloy of aluminium, copper, iron, lead, vhs, fyi, apple pie, uh, fbi,
And some other elements too
But since you're gone
I wish i'd stuck to you