Did Galileo Pray - Ellis Paul

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

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

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

Don’t shoot the messenger, don’t shoot the messenger…