How Can It Be - Mark Seibert

I’ve read Francis Bacon and studied the Bible

I’ve learned Enlightenment knowing

The triumph of logic and science is vital

For keeping Man’s mastery growing

I know without a doubt

That reason can find out

How things are going

I trust in education

And yet I am at my wits' end

What defies all explanation

I refuse to understand

Dear Lord, how can it be?

It’s baffling me

You gave us science and good sense

To save us all from Hell

How can it be that all the rules

Of reason and society

Are undone by music’s magic spll?

A child can be trained to do things that are awsome

The key is a good education

A gift is a seed: if you want it to blossom

It certainly needs cultivation

And though that’s clear to me

Seeing a mystery

I can’t play possum

Every work needs some correction

There are flaws in every one

Here’s an absolute perfection

And I don’t know how it’s done

Dear Lord, how can it be?

It’s baffling me

You gave us science and good sense

To save us all from Hell

How can it be that all the rules

Of reason and society

Can be undone by music’s magic spell?

How can it be that all the rules

Of reason and society

Can be undone

By such an arrogant, impertinent

Disorderly, discourteous

Unmannerly, tenacious

Mischief-maker

And by music’s magic spell?