Did Galileo Pray?

When he looked

Into a starry sky upon jupiter,

With it's cold moons

Making their weary rounds.



Did he know that the pope

Would claim that he ran with lucifer

And a prison cell

Would be where he'd lay his head down?



Was he wearing a thorny crown?

When he plotted the motion of planets,

Was mercury in retrograde?

But he found the truth when a lie was what was demanded.

When the judges asked him pointedly

He was a' trembling that day.



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Did galileo pray?

Did galileo pray?

Did galileo pray?

Did galileo pray?



And he said,

"tell ptolemy, tell copernicus,

That the sun is at the core of us

The church, the pope

Can't deny the milky way



And every flower that follows the sun,

Has known all along

What god had done

They whisper truth

As the seasons each give way.



Don't shoot the messenger,

The postman delivers truth today.

And truth will march in birmingham

It will block the tanks in tiananmen.

Put the judges on the witness stand

Let's see what they all say.



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In the heavens you'll see it

As god has conceived it.

Oh, believe it.

Oh, what have you got to do to believe?



Don't shoot the messenger,

When the postman brings you truth today.

Because truth will march in birmingham

It will block the tanks in tiananmen

Put the judges on the witness stand,

Let's see what they all say.



Chorus



Don't shoot the messenger, don't shoot the messenger