4th century BC
Plato
- Idealism — forms over particulars
- The Republic ethic: “God is not the author of evil”
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Turn the dial to the in-between
And you'll hear the oldest sound
A whisper from the first of days
Still humming all around
They call it cosmic static
Just the echo of the spark
But I think it's a signature
He left across the dark
[Chorus]
Static and stars
Fingerprints on everything that's far
You can read it like a name
In the noise and in the flame
He was here, He is here
Written into how things are
You're surrounded by His evidence
In the static and the stars
[Verse 2]
The skeptic wants a quiet sky
That doesn't point above
But every wavelength testifies
And every law is love
There is no neutral hilltop
Where the proof comes marching by
The proof is in the seeing
And He has to lend the eye
[Chorus]
Static and stars
Fingerprints on everything that's far
You can read it like a name
In the noise and in the flame
He was here, He is here
Written into how things are
You're surrounded by His evidence
In the static and the stars
[Bridge]
Open up my deafened ears
Let me hear it after years
The hum was always speaking
He was singing through the spheres
[Final Chorus]
Static and stars
Fingerprints on everything that's far
I can read it like a name
In the noise and in the flame
He was here, He is here
Written into how things are
And I'm surrounded by His evidence
In the static and the stars
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