Higher Education And The Book Of Love Lyrics

Higher Education And The Book Of Love lyrics

"INTRO ~ What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be human?

I cannot help but suspect that at one time in the history of
thinking
that people believed that it meant that we were spiritual and that
we 
could make choices and were capable of aspiring to higher ideals...

like maybe loyalty or maybe faith... or maybe even love. 
But now we are
told by people who think they know, that we vary from 
amoeba only in the
complexity of our makeup and not in what we 
essentially are. They would
have us think as Dysart said that we are 
forever bound up in certain
genetic reigns - that we are merely products 
of the way things are and not
free - not free to be the people who make 
them that way. They would have us
see ourselves as products so that 
we could believe that we were something to
be made - something to 
be used and then something to be disposed of. Used in
their wars - 
used for their gains and then set aside when we get in their
way. 
Well, who are they? They are the few who sit at the top of the heap -

dung heap though it is - and who say it is better to reign in Hell than

to serve in Heaven. Well, I do not know that we can have a Heaven 
here
on earth, but I am sure we need not have a Hell either. 
What does it mean
to be human? I cannot help but believe that it means 
we are spiritual -
that we are responsible and that we are free - that 
we are responsible to
be free." 

"When I was back in high school 
They said boy
try and make some sense 
Grow up and be a consumer 
And not a dissident

Don't worry 'bout the system 
Just watch out for yourself 
It sounded
just like the wisdom 
That comes straight out of Hell 
They said (shut up)
don't make no ripples 
(Shut up) don't raise no stink 
I heard so much of
their drivel 
It's a wonder I can think 

Don't give me that 
I
want the truth 
Don't say for fact 
What is only point of view 
Don't
give me that 
I've had enough 
We best get back to what was written

In the in the Book of love 

Well when I went to college 
They
said boy get this straight 
You're just a tailless monkey 
You're a
hairless ape 
We're on a scary evolutionary stairway 
Who knows where

Trusting higher education 
To get us all there 
There ain't no values
no morals 
There's no rights and no wrongs 
Never knowing where we're
going 
Well it's hard to go wrong 

Don't give me that 
I want the
truth 
Don't say for fact 
What is only your point of view 
Don't give
me that 
I've had enough 
We best get back to what was written 
In the
in the in the Book of love 
(Higher) 
(Higher) 
(Higher education and
the Book of Love) 

When I came to my senses 
At the foot of the cross

I saw the wisdom that comes 
From the fear of God 
How it is pure it
loves peace 
It's full of mercy and good fruit 
It had the power to free
me 
The power of the truth 
Like a setting of silver 
On an apple of
gold 
Is a word aptly spoken 
Is the truth clearly told 

Now give
me that 
'Cause that's the truth 
It's bigger than fact 
It's broader
than your point of view 
Now give me that 
Can't get enough 
When we
get back to what was written 
In the in the Book of love 

Now give me
that 
'Cause that's the truth 
It's bigger than fact 
It's broader than
your your point of view 
Now give me that 
Can't get enough 
When we
get back to what was written 
In the in the Book of love 

Higher
education and the Book of Love 
Higher education and the Book of Love

Higher education and the Book of Love 
Higher education and the Book of
Love 
Higher education and the Book of Love"