4th century BC
Plato
- Idealism — forms over particulars
- The Republic ethic: “God is not the author of evil”
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
He didn't strain, He didn't sweat
He didn't carve it out of clay
He only had to say a word
And there was suddenly a day
The Word was first, before the dust
Before a single thing was here
A voice inside the nothing
And the nothing learned to hear
[Chorus]
I was spoken
Not a guess and not a roll
He said me into being
Every atom, every soul
The Logos leaned in close
And the darkness understood
He spoke, and I was standing
He spoke, and it was good
[Verse 2]
So if a word could make a star
A word can hold me when I shake
I'm not a thing that happened
I'm a sentence He won't break
The mouth that named the morning
Knows the syllables of me
And what He says, He finishes
What He speaks, will always be
[Chorus]
I was spoken
Not a guess and not a roll
He said me into being
Every atom, every soul
The Logos leaned in close
And the darkness understood
He spoke, and I was standing
He spoke, and it was good
[Bridge]
Say it again, say it again
The word that lit the very first of men
Say my name into the void
And watch me come alive
[Final Chorus]
I was spoken
Not a guess and not a roll
He said me into being
Every atom, every soul
The Logos leaned in close
And the darkness understood
He spoke, and I am standing
He spoke, and it is good
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