Counting Crows
Round Here
Don’t be concerned
It’s just the way that gravity works round here
Franz Ferdinand
Always Ascending
Step out the front door like a ghost
Into the fog where no one notices
The contrast of white on white.
If you go straight long enough
you’ll end up where you were.
Modest Mouse
3rd Planet
And in between the moon and you
The angels get a better view
Of the crumbling difference between wrong and right.
Round here we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates
Out there’s a land that time don’t command
Wanna be the first to arrive
Lord Huron
Ends of the Earth
She says, “It’s only in my head.”
She says, “Shh, I know it’s only in my head.”
The planets and stars
And Venus and Mars
No, they don’t measure up to you
No, no
And nothing can compare
To you, this I swear
MisterWives
Oceans
Let me be your ruler (ruler)
Lorde
Royals
I can’t see nothing, nothing
Around here
You catch me if I’m falling
You catch me if I’m falling
Will you catch me because I’m falling down on here
I said ” I’m under the gun”
Round here.
Oh man I said “I’m under the gun”
Round here.
And I can’t see nothin’, nothin’.
Round here.
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. 1
Nikola Tesla
New York Times article July 11th 1935
I can feel no sense of measure
No illusions as we take
Refuge in young man’s pleasure
Breaking down the
dreams we make real
Yes
Leave It
If God is, man is a slave;
now, man can and must be free;
then, God does not exist.
Michail Bakunin
God and the State
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
Tears for Fears
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
And baby I’ll rule, I’ll rule, I’ll rule, I’ll rule
Let me live that fantasy
Lorde
Royals
References:
- TESLA, 79, PROMISES TO TRANSMIT FORCE; Scientist on Birthday Reveals Scheme to Send Mechanical Energy All Over World – Would Even Guide Ships – Assails Theory of Relativity as Work of Metaphysicians and not Scientific.
New York Times, July 11th, 1935
“The theory of relativity he described as “a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.”
“The theory, “he said, “wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king. Its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved.”
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Counting Crows – Round Here
Oh, there’s a desert that’s size can’t be measured
I’m gonna count all the dunes
Lord Huron
Ends of the Earth