Do You Really Want to Know
The sun once went around the earth
According to the holy church
Which helped to reassure
People that they were
The center of the universe
One day his holiness, the Pope
Met a man with a telescope
And said "hey Mr. Galilei
What does your spyglass say?
And the scientist spoke... he said
It's really quite amazing
Entirely life-changing
So let me ask before I show you—
Do you really want to know?
Emma read the bible for direction
She said she was a child of heaven
And that the human race
Came from a higher place
From the angels descended
She wound up marrying her cousin
He was a thinker of a husband
Lost in thought, she'd find him
And say "Charlie, what you writing?"
Darwin looked up and said
Do you really want to
Let knowledge like a breeze
In through the door of your belief
Blow through the rooms and the corridors
Knock cherished heirlooms to the floor
That wind can raise the roof sometimes
And leave you blinking at the sky
So if you stare into this glass
Beware that there's no going back
You'll say "Sun Rise!" but it will refuse
Instead, the earth itself will move
And spin you 'round from dawn to dawn
Amid the wonder of it all
Do you really want to know?
