I'm really okay thanks, there's nothing to witness   I said as I looked back from the edge of the cliff   The old man looking down leant over the ridge   Stood with a grin as if a blessing had hit him   I slumped on the jut of the cliff   Just leave me alone, this is none of your business   I will said the old man, but just one thing   And what he said was so lovely it stunned me   He said I lay right there once at the edge of the rock   I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost   But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot      For billions of years since the outset of time   Every single one of your ancestors survived   Every single person on your mum and dad's sides successfully looked after and passed onto you life   What are the chances of that like?   It comes to me once in a while   And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile      And then the old man walked away and out of sight   Till the sound of him hiking turned to the sound of silence   I just froze at the profound surprise and from down at my pride I found a smile to my eyes   And for many days again I've been passing the same cliff and on many occasions I'd chance on the same thing   Laying in the moss, in the same way I was would be another man looking like he needed a change of luck   So I'd say I lay right there once at the edge of the rock   I was ready to jump, I was ever so lost   But this gentleman stopped and said something I never forgot      For billions of years since the outset of time   Every single one of your ancestors survived   Every single person on your mum and dad's sides successfully looked after and passed onto you life   What are the chances of that like?   It comes to me once in a while   And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile      For billions of years since the outset of time   Every single one of your ancestors survived   Every single person on your mum and dad's sides successfully looked after and passed onto you life   What are the chances of that like?   It comes to me once in a while   And everywhere I tell folk it gets the best smile