The truth always carries
The ambiguity of the words
Used to express it
Answers are a perilous grip
On the universe
They can appear sensible
Yet explain nothing
And thinking you know something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
All, all, all, all, all proofs
Inevitably lead to propositions
Which have no proof
All things are known
Because we want to believe in them
[Chorus]
All things are known
'cause we want to believe in them
All things are known
'cause we want to believe in them
The ambiguity of the words
Used to express it
Answers are a perilous grip
On the universe
They can appear sensible
Yet explain nothing
And thinking you know something
Is a sure way to blind yourself
All, all, all, all, all proofs
Inevitably lead to propositions
Which have no proof
All things are known
Because we want to believe in them
[Chorus]
All things are known
'cause we want to believe in them
All things are known
'cause we want to believe in them
Governments, if they endure
Always tend increasingly
Toward aristocratic forms
No government in history
Has been known
To evade this pattern
And as the aristocracy develops
Government tends more and more
To act exclusively in the interests
Of the ruling class
Whether that class be hereditary royalty
Oligarchs of financial empires
Or entrenched bureaucracy
All governments suffer
A reocurring problem
Power attracts
Pathological personalities
It is not the power corrupts
Always tend increasingly
Toward aristocratic forms
No government in history
Has been known
To evade this pattern
And as the aristocracy develops
Government tends more and more
To act exclusively in the interests
Of the ruling class
Whether that class be hereditary royalty
Oligarchs of financial empires
Or entrenched bureaucracy
All governments suffer
A reocurring problem
Power attracts
Pathological personalities
It is not the power corrupts
The problem of leadership
Is inevitably
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Power bases are very dangerous
Because they attract people
Who are truly insane
People who seek power
Only for the sake of power
Absolute power
Does not corrupt absolutely
Absolute power
Attracts the corruptible
Is inevitably
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Who will play god?
Power bases are very dangerous
Because they attract people
Who are truly insane
People who seek power
Only for the sake of power
Absolute power
Does not corrupt absolutely
Absolute power
Attracts the corruptible
Atrocity is recognized as such
By victim
And perpetrator alike
By all who learn about it
At whatever remove
Atrocity has no excuses
No mitigating argument
Atrocity never balances
Or rectifies the past
Atrocity merely arms the future
For more atrocity
It is self-perpetuating upon itself
A barbarous form of incest
Whoever commits atrocity
Also commits
Those future atrocities
Thus bred
By victim
And perpetrator alike
By all who learn about it
At whatever remove
Atrocity has no excuses
No mitigating argument
Atrocity never balances
Or rectifies the past
Atrocity merely arms the future
For more atrocity
It is self-perpetuating upon itself
A barbarous form of incest
Whoever commits atrocity
Also commits
Those future atrocities
Thus bred
[Chorus]
It was a pattern the sisterhood
Had long recognized
The inevitable failure of slavery
And peonage
You created a reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created a reservoir of hate
Implacable enemies
If you had no hope
Of exterminating all of these enemies
You dared not try
Temper your efforts
By the sure awareness
It was a pattern the sisterhood
Had long recognized
The inevitable failure of slavery
And peonage
You created a reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
A reservoir of hate
You created a reservoir of hate
Implacable enemies
If you had no hope
Of exterminating all of these enemies
You dared not try
Temper your efforts
By the sure awareness