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Geometric mountains rise in the biblical sky |
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They measure the miles to the moon |
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The Dogon chart invisible stars in the African night |
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A beacon flashes on |
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Crawl out of the darkness into the light |
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Pushing back the curtain of an endless night |
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Strange helicopters fly in a medieval Italian sky |
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Men travel beneath the sea in machines |
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All figments of a born too soon genius' dreams |
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So many schemes, so little time |
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Leaping out of the darkness into the night |
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Building hopeful bridges to paradise |
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Pushing back the frontiers with man-made light |
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But never stopping to wonder if we're wrong |
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The guiding light of science could lead us to paradise |
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Do you believe in the power of logic? |
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Are you willing to pay the price? |
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Are you willing to pay the price? |
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V2 terror dives through a 1940's London sky |
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The beacon's growing dim |
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Then Little Boy melts imperial sunrise in Hiroshima's skies |
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The world just watches |
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Stunned |
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The blinding darkness of science |
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Has damned us all to hell |
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We played with Promethean fire |
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And God in his heaven fell |
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So he damned us all to hell |
