Greydon Square - Star View lyrics

From your universe it would look
Like a black hole
Yes, are we ready to be gods? Now, ehh
Suppose you came upon this
Equation and unleash it
And give the world the kind
Of power you're talking about godlike power
Wouldn't you think twice or three
Times before you said "Hey! I've got it!"
What is the hallmark of science?
The hallmark of science is
That it's reproducible
And in principle falsifiable

There's no going back the
Hands have been dealt
Life is the only wealth
Why stop at managing health
Wait til they find out that
Man is enhancing himself
That we now have the technology


To kill cancerous cells the Kardashev scale
Don't care if you went to Harvard or Yale
If you don't fight for the future
You'll be a part of the sale
(they sold the future)
You wanted to grow up so fast
When you was a kid
Now you're trying to get back into
Shape stay youthful and live
What if I proposed a pill that
Would do what that did
You'd live 900 years like Methuselah's myth
What would you do with it
Would you take it and swallow?
Or dismiss the solution and keep
The age old problem?
I'd want to live to meet
My great grand-kid's children
I'd love to see an exponential
Growth in my lyrics
Act like if I was immortal
I'd stop being Eddie
But, I should be able to choose
Whether to die when I'm ready

We have baby pictures of the big bang
These baby pictures of the big bang are
When the baby universe was about 300
000 years of age
So think of a baby being born
We now have pictures of the
Universe an hour after birth (an hour)
We want a picture of the big
Bang as it's emerging the uterus
As it's coming out of the womb (check it)

I never want to die, I shouldn't have to
I just want to take to space into the vacuum
Give me my own ship
Let me explore the cosmos
The complex symphony unknown ensemble
The powers that be try to tell me to stop
But we all hail from a pale blue dot
Whether you like it or not
Use force to escape inertia
And celebrate my emancipation
From Terra Firma
We are the source of where gods come from
Welcome, as we prepare to take
You to type one
And you know whats more sick, as a war vet
I actually feel pretty honored
To stimulate your cortex
So get lost in the vortex
It's the dark tunnel
Approaching the singularity of
This dark funnel
And they're right as far as Greydon goes
Sagan got him
While the more gullible fell victim
To the Reagan doctrine
Lyrically I want to be
This generation's Common
They want us to change the message
We'll just change the octave
The broken logic, and it's basic dangers
All this for you to enjoy
Safe in your stasis chambers

Alright, just for the sake of this
Discussion let us assume all of this
Turns out to be true
How big a step for humanity would that
Be toward becoming a type I civilization?
Well, this would be an enormous
Big step with a
Lot of "ifs" that have to be satisfied
Of course
We're talking of inexhaustible forces of
Energy almost for free
This would be comparable to the unleashing of
Steam power - about 150 years ago
So it was steam power that
Revolutionized the last century
So we're talking about a new
Leap on that scale, if these results pan out
You know, that's interesting because it has
Always seemed like a
Race between self-destruction on the one hand
And attaining type one status
On the other hand