Ego, The Living Planet Lyrics

This is a very very heavy piece of music, almost completely instrumental, that takes its title from an interesting comic book idea. Copied verbatim from Wikipedia: "Ego the Living Planet is a fictional extraterrestrial being that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Thor #132 (Oct. 1966) and was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby." "Like all celestial bodies, Ego condensed from gas and dust in the "Black Galaxy" to become a planet. For reasons unknown, however, this particular planet achieved sentience and the ability to move of its own volition. Ego then began absorbing space vessels and even other worlds to survive, planning interstellar conquest. It was this behavior that attracts the attention of the Rigellian Colonizers, who fear that the nearby Ego will consume their home-world. The Rigellians discovered Earth, and promised to leave it unmolested if the Thunder God Thor would defeat Ego. Accompanied by a Rigellian Recorder, Thor encounters Ego and after an epic battle defeats it. As a result, Ego vows to never leave the Black Galaxy and renounced its plans of conquest.[5] Several months later, a weakened Galactus invades Ego's space and seeks to replenish his energy by consuming Ego. Thor aids Ego in battling Galactus, and generates a massive God Blast that drives Galactus off. In gratitude Ego allows its surface to become the new home of the Wanderers, a race whose planet had been the very first to be devoured by Galactus billions of years ago.[6] A well-meaning Rigellian took a sample of Ego's form, in the hope that this could be used to fertilize sterile worlds being considered for habitation.[7] This act drives Ego insane, and it soon gives in to its primordial urges and absorbs the Wanderers, which causes Thor to side with a returning Galactus. Assisted by ally Hercules and Galactus' herald, Firelord, Thor holds Ego off until Galactus attaches a massive starship engine to Ego's south pole, which drives the planet constantly through space and thereby prevents it from being a threat to other planets and populated sections of the universe.[8]"