Eppur Si Muove

Album: Songs From The Deep Field

Lyrics

v1) Long, long ago on a starry night there was a little baby born
Hard upon the ruins of the Roman Empire on the southern horn
His parents they named him Galileo, how he loved to wonder why
While others looked down Galileo looked into the sky




v2) He built himself a telescope to search the heavens just to see what would meet his eyes
Discovery followed on discovery and he began to realize
Copernicus was right, the world was moving and when all was said and done
The earth was the one that was making a ring ‘round the sun



v3) Soon enough trouble came to Galileo for writing of the things he’d found
These ideas threatened views of the Bible, the church’s holy ground
They brought the old man before the Inquisition forcing him to agree
He said all the words but then rising he also said these: eppur, eppur si muove



CH: Eppur si muove, yet it moves - Struggle to deny it, still it’s true
Try to make the earth stand still like a king on a little hill
Eppur si muove, yet it moves



v4) Living after that was hard for Galileo but he didn’t really care
He lived his final years under house arrest - under the church’s icy stare
But the center had changed and the sun was rising, shining on a brand new day
He’d written a book and he’d taught all the children to say: eppur, eppur si muove



CH: Eppur si muove, yet it moves - Struggle to deny it, still it’s true
Try to make the earth stand still – you can try but you ever will
Eppur si muove, yet it moves

Credit

by Jack Pearson © 1998 Jack Pearson, OtterTunity Inc. - BMI