Well you listen to the poets singing songs around the fire
About the heavens full of jealousy of vengeance and desire
They say the deities are stealing they are cheating on their wives
Just a bunch of wicked mortals living elevated lives
You give ’em human voices and you give ’em human clothes
But a god who acts like a criminal is a god that nobody knows
Oh the Thracian says the heavens have a head of fiery red
And the blue-eyed gods are looking down upon the Thracian bed
The Ethiopian says the divine is dark and flat of nose
‘Cause everybody paints the holy in the only shape he knows
If a lion had a chisel if a horse could hold a pen
They would draw the mighty heavens looking nothing like a man
Yeah a cow would draw a cattle-god standing in the sand
If a cow could mix the colors if a horse possessed a hand
You think you know the secrets of the water and the dirt
You think you know exactly how the universe is girt
Well even if you stumbled on the absolute and true
You’d never even know it and it wouldn’t speak to you
The certainty is missing the absolute is gone
We are operating blindly in the middle of the dawn
It’s a woven web of guesses it’s an educated try
So stop pretending you can see the bottom of the sky
But there is One
Greatest among the gods and the men
Not like a mortal in body
Not like a mortal in mind
He doesn’t walk he doesn’t run he doesn’t need to move
He’s sitting in the center of an absolute groove
He sees all over He thinks all over He hears all over
He shakes all things by the thought of his mind
But the Thracian says the heavens have a head of fiery red
And the blue-eyed gods are looking down upon the Thracian bed
The Ethiopian says the divine is dark and flat of nose
‘Cause everybody paints the holy in the only shape he knows
If a lion had a chisel if a horse could hold a pen
They would draw the mighty heavens looking nothing like a man
Yeah a cow would draw a cattle-god standing in the sand
If a cow could mix the colors if a horse possessed a hand
If a horse possessed a hand
Just a web of guesses
He shakes it with his mind