(our version)
Lamar (Socrates):
Wherefore, O men of Athens,
I say to you
Therefore, aquit me or not,
But whichever you do
I shall never alter my ways,
Never adjust my approach to this maze,
Never reform till the end of my days,
Even if I have to die many times
~~
Peggy (Thomas Aquinas):
God is apprehended by imagination, intuition, reason, touch, opinion, sense, and name
And so on
While quite on the other hand we find we can't begin to understand him,
To some it seems a shame to go on.
But he is all things in all,
And he is nothing in any,
He is often found in one thing small,
Conversely, he is often missed in many.
~~
Jeffrey (Martin Luther):
God almighty has turned our rulers mad,
God almighty has turned our people bad.
For the German nobility,
With typical agility,
Have so applied their skill at egregious laws,
That the people are led astray,
They feel beholden to obey,
It may be just the German way,
But God it gives one pause.
~~
Joanne (Da Vinci):
The rise of man...
Sonia (Gibbon):
The decline of Rome...
Both:
Was natural...
Gibbon:
And inevitable
Da Vinci:
Man is so levitable!
Gibbon:
Instead of inquiring why Rome was destroyed...
Da Vinci:
Instead of admiring man's filling of the void
Both:
We should rather be surprised...
Da Vinci:
That God had man so tyrannized...
Gibbon:
That Rome remained so strong...
Both:
Man will be strong so long!
~~
Robin (Fredrick Nietzsche):
Wha-a-a-a-a-t
Is noble
Nowadays?
~~
Gilmer (Jean Paul Sartre):
Atheistic existential
Ism which I represent,
Is more coherent-I do believe it
Herb (Buckminster Fuller):
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes!
Sartre:
There is no such thing as human nature,
Not in all or few men,
Since there is no God to concieve it
Fuller:
Man is a complex of patterns, of processes!
(Fuller speaking):
I live on earth at present and I do not know what I am. I know that I am not a noun, a thing. I seem to be a verb; an evolutionary process; an intigral function of the universe.
~~
All:
So high
In my
Lovely Ivory Tower of
Babble, babble, babble, babble, babble, babble, babble, babble
High above the
Rabble, rabble, rabble, rabble, babble, rabble, babble, babble, rabble, babble
Greatest mind of history,
Solving life's sweet mystery,
So listen to me (so listen to me)
Know how life should be,
Oh, what does it matter if they don't agree?
(All sing parts over one another)