Know It Now

My occupation watching satellites And dropping things from heights Creates conclusions that some things are wrong And laws like to hide Kinematics are in And so are pendulums They swing they swing, they swing, they swing they swing And then I write down how much they swing. And now they say they've found a way Of looking at things far away Closer to your eyes Telescope Know it now The gulf I've seen between your dream and mine The world, this solid world moves free I didn't set out to fool anyone With geocentric talk I have preferred to use reason and sense To lazy loose thoughts I'm the father of science Astronomy as well My beliefs, the heresy that you see Has left me locked up and so it ends Copernicus He spoke for us, you shout and cuss, because The world, this solid world moves free Copernicus He screams for us and still you cuss, because The world, this solid world moves free Copernicus He teaches us, you preached to us, because The world, this solid world moves free Know it now Instinct will show what is below us now The world is moving round the world