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The Watchmaker's Dial Lyrics
Oh yonder stands the prophet
The words are music to our ears
But down among the sinners
Only pain and sweat and tears
The sermon soothes the simple
But the rest are rapt with fear
Oh no, too late to hold a trial
Time doesn't wait for the watchmaker's dial
In the best laid plans of history
Lie the ruins of the past
And a chronicle of suffering
Shows the mythic pall they cast
To believe is true religion
But to see is truth at last
Oh no, too late to hold a trial
Time doesn't wait for the watchmaker's dial
Time doesn't wait for the watchmaker's dial
The words are music to our ears
But down among the sinners
Only pain and sweat and tears
The sermon soothes the simple
But the rest are rapt with fear
Time doesn't wait for the watchmaker's dial
Lie the ruins of the past
And a chronicle of suffering
Shows the mythic pall they cast
To believe is true religion
But to see is truth at last
Time doesn't wait for the watchmaker's dial
Time doesn't wait for the watchmaker's dial
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punkpirate On Jul 12, 2006
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This song is deep and absolutely inspires me. I believe the song writer is portraying an erroneous problem, what if religion or any ideogical entity was quantified or measured. It's based on belief not evidence and would not sustain a "trial" of measuring truthfulness. All though time literally does not wait for anything, symbolically the momentum of religion still exists today, however time will exist longer than the designer of religin, the watch, or any "complex" piece of equipment that seems perplexing in nature. Philosophically the "watchmaker" story tries to deny evolution and portrays creationism. The song writer is saying it's too late to debate this thing and it will just have to work itself out of our behavior which is a phenotypical relationship, which is my thoughts on genetics, although some may disagree and say that's not even relevant. Some people look at sermons as someone who is friends with the snake oil guy and helps him sell it. It's bullshit, but keeps people positive. The song writer probably doesn't buy into the dogmas of religion and would rather drop things that gave us a brutal past. Positivity is crucial in life in all aspects. Although science professors can be sanctimonious assholes, this guy is honest and his passion is to educate..... Whether it is an accurate tale of this song, or whether the song writer just wanted to sing about cryptic cool melodic philosophical literature, it made me think and for that I thank him for his contributions to society. Without him I would not have gone down the science path and would have a different perspective of maybe irrational thinking.