Belinda Carlisle
Heaven Is a Place on Earth
They think that love’s a lie,
But we can teach them how to try
Madonna
Love Makes the World Go Round
Ooh, baby, do you know what that’s worth?
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
They say in heaven, love comes first
We’ll make heaven a place on earth
I found a love I had lost
It was gone for too long
Hear no evil in all directions
Execution of bitterness
Message received loud and clear
INXS
Don’t Change
But the actual tendency of the geocentric system was, for the medieval mind, precisely the opposite. For the centre of the world was not a position of honor; it was rather the place farthest removed from the Empyrean, the bottom of the creation, to which its dregs and baser elements sank. 1
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (1936)
My world is a flood,
Slowly I become one with the mud
Jars of Clay
Flood
From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being… 2
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Cosmic Perspective
I got the message and the message is clear
Men Without Hats
The Message
You pull me close and we start to move
I have done a good thing
I’ve got you moving, everybody’s dancing
Men Without Hats
The Message
I saw the world spin beneath you
Goo Goo Dolls
Black Balloon
The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet.
At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk
The Smashing Pumpkins
Thirty-Three
And the one change of this kind implied by the abandonment of the geocentric system was, as is evident from what has already been said, the reverse of that often attributed to the new astronomy; to remove man from the centre of things was to raise him from his low estate. 3
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea (1936)
And we’re spinning with the stars above
And you lift me up in a wave of love
Lift me up so high that I cannot fall
Jars of Clay
Flood
If you are confused, check with the sun
Carry a compass to help you along
Your feet are going to be on the ground
Your head is there to move you around
R.E.M.
Stand
In a culture conditioned to think in categories of Cartesian dualism or of a pre-Copernican cosmology that split the heavens and the earth, Spinoza was taken either as an atheist who reduced everything to matter … or as a pantheist who believed God was everywhere. 4
James Carroll
Constantine’s Sword: The Church and the Jews: A History
They say in heaven, love comes first
We’ll make heaven a place on earth
Up and down
And in the end it’s only
round and round and round
Pink Floyd
Us and Them
Circle in the sand
Round and round
Never ending love is what we’ve found
Belinda Carlisle
Circle in the sand
Belinda is the debut studio album by American singer Belinda Carlisle. It was released on May 19, 1986 by I.R.S. Records. Carlisle began work on the album in 1985 following the breakup of the Go-Go’s, for whom she was the lead singer.
I.R.S. Records was a major American record label founded by Miles Copeland III, Jay Boberg, and Carl Grasso in 1979.
Miles Copeland III, the son of CIA officer Miles Copeland Jr., played many roles in the U.K. punk rock and new wave music industry of the middle to late 1970s: agent, manager, producer, magazine publisher, record company and label owner. His brother Ian was the head of a talent agency, Frontier Booking International (F.B.I.), while his brother Stewart played drums for The Police, a band that Copeland managed.
Our lips are sealed
The Go-Go’s
Our Lips Are Sealed
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