Indigo Girls

USA




Galileo


Galileo's head was on the block
the crime was looking up the truth
as the bombshells of my daily fears explode
I try to trace them to my youth

then you had to bring up reincarnation
over a couple of beers the other night
now I'm serving time for mistakes
made by another in another lifetime

how long till my soul gets it right
can any human being ever reach that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
king of night, vision king of insight

I think about my fear of motion
which I never could explain
some other fool across the ocean years ago
must have crashed his little airplane

how long till my soul gets it right
can any human being ever reach that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
king of night vision, king of insight

I'm not making a joke you know me
I take everything so seriously
if we wait for the time till all souls get it right
then at least I know there'll be no nuclear annihilation

in my lifetime - I'm still not right

I offer thanks to those before me
that's all I've got to say
maybe you squandered big bucks in your lifetime
now I've got to pay

but then again it feels like some sort of inspiration
to let the next life off the hook
or she'll say look what I had to overcome from my last life
I think I'll write a book

how long till my soul gets it right
can any human being ever reach that kind of light
I call on the resting soul of Galileo
king of night vision, king of insight

how long, how long, how long



en Rites of Passage, 1992