| Declan O' Rourke – Galileo (Someone Like You) Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song annoys me every time I hear it because it makes complete travesty of Galileo's life. He was a scientist and astronomer who championed the heliocentric view of the universe in contrast to the earth-centered view then endorsed by the Vatican. I'm pretty sure that he did not "wonder who put the rainbow in the sky" because everyone in those days "knew" it was God who did these things. His interest was in making objective, scientific observations (he discovered the moons of Jupiter) of the solar system and other physical phenomena. For his troubles he was subject to the Inquisition and forbidden from publishing by the Vatican for the rest of his life. These are facts that we know about the man which are much more interesting than the romantic whimsy which this songs imagines about him. Is it just because he has a poetic name with 4 syllables? Pick on someone else... |
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