Portrait of a Scientist as a Young Man--revised

[brad]

Close your Eyes
Fuck the Beast
Escape the Reign
Fuel the Machine

A rocket pad high on a hill
The spark that met your eyes
See the trail of smoke climb through the skies

A simple man can't understand
The tests that I've been through
Holding onto science--the equator

And a war is born
Like the words to a little song

Answer man
Trades his Name
Grows a Fire
From a Flame

A keystone in the unigram
A sinner and a saint
A goat that spills his blood without complaint

You swim the moat and trick the guards
to rescue the Lady(Gai)
Holding onto science the equator

But there's no more gold
In the Hills of Jericho