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The Eyes of Galileo

D G D A
I hope that this letter brings courage my friend.
G D A
It’s hard in Barberini’s Jail House, I know.
D A D G D G A D
So I hid in this pail my very best pair of the eyes of Galileo.

They can shackle your feet and hands, bar you from me.
Your tormented head’s hanging low.
But at night when they’re sleeping you can travel the stars
with the eyes of Galileo.

Bm A G D
Thinking’s not free, my friend. It’s just like the soil.
A
The Dukes got the deed long ago.
Bm A G D
But I dream of a time when our words will be as free
G A D
as the eyes of Galileo.

I spoke to your daughter. She asked of your work,
“Is mathematics some irreverent joke?”
She wonders if numbers are magic that fools
the eyes of Galileo.
I said, “A ship needs men pulling on ropes to set sail,
but one with a sextant they follow.
When we reach the shores of a New World we’ll thank
the eyes of Galileo.
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Some say the Devil works in your spyglass.
But he points us to what is base and low.
Your vision of heaven is just clearer than most
through the eyes of Galileo.
So don’t be ashamed if they make you recant.
For your truth will not into hiding go.
Even if you went blind I would count myself blessed
to have the eyes of Galileo.
refrain

Words And Music By David B. Hakan 1-13-95

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from David Hakan Live at the Corbin Theater, released January 1, 2007

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