Galileo fell in love as a Galilean boy
And he wondered what in heaven who invented such a joy
But the question got the better of his scientific mind
And to his blind and dying gaze
He looked up high and often sighed
And sometimes cried
Who puts the rainbow in the sky
Who lights the stars at night
Who dreamt up someone so divine
Someone like you and made them mine
Love can make you ask some funny questions now and then
But just remember the alternatives for I remember when
I was lonely and unhappy
And my lips were cold as ice
But you kissed me, and good heavens
Now I'm here in paradise
So if ever I'm not kissing you or looking in your eyes
I won't be blind, and I won't cry
I'll look up high and gladly sigh
And thank the guy
Who puts the rainbow in the sky?
Who lights the stars at night?
Who dreamt up someone so divine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
And he wondered what in heaven who invented such a joy
But the question got the better of his scientific mind
And to his blind and dying gaze
He looked up high and often sighed
And sometimes cried
Who puts the rainbow in the sky
Who lights the stars at night
Who dreamt up someone so divine
Someone like you and made them mine
Love can make you ask some funny questions now and then
But just remember the alternatives for I remember when
I was lonely and unhappy
And my lips were cold as ice
But you kissed me, and good heavens
Now I'm here in paradise
So if ever I'm not kissing you or looking in your eyes
I won't be blind, and I won't cry
I'll look up high and gladly sigh
And thank the guy
Who puts the rainbow in the sky?
Who lights the stars at night?
Who dreamt up someone so divine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
Lyrics submitted by See0Emily0Play
Galileo Lyrics as written by Seamus Paul Mary Cotter Declan Edward O'rourke
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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It's got to be one of the greatest love songs ever written. I think it fairly self explanatory.
Paul Weller was asked, if he could pick one song in the past twenty years that he'd liked to have written, he pick this song.
I believe the posted lyrics have the incorrect punctuation in the last verse. In the first verse Galileo, brilliant mind though he has, does not understand the chemistry of love. He is a scientist an therefore everything can be explained, he cannot explain this so he ponders the QUESTIONS
Who puts the rainbow in the sky?
Who lights the stars at night?
Who dreamt up someone so divine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
Someone like you and made them mine?
So in the third verse in his intimacy with his love he realises he is not as clever as he thought and that not everything can be analysed scientifically so he has to bow to this unknown superior force and
"Thank the guy
Who puts the rainbow in the sky!
Who lights the stars at night!
Who dreamt up someone so divine!
Someone like you and made them mine!
Someone like you and made them mine!"
So you see the final verse are not Questions thaey are statements!!
Cool or what!!
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...
About the song I puzzle over where Declan O'Rourke got this brilliant idea from, that the question of where does love come from could be investigated by a scientist. Does a scientist have to strictly materialistic or is he actually able to look at things of a spiritual nature like love without fear of ridicule.
He suggests that the young Galileo is led into astronomy by wondering who was responsible for his lady and the way that she made him feel. He comes to the conclusion in the song that there is intelligence behind it all and devotes his life to studying that intelligence with confidence. It seems to me that that is the kind of person Galileo actually was.
Not only that but any one who could dream up the exquisite delights between lovers must be a benefactor worthy of extreme admiration.
If Galileo were alive today would he be persecuted by the Athiestic lobby in place of the Jesuists?
This is just a love song taken from the stance of someone like a scientist. Someone that like's to map things out, know how things work, and/or have everything in its place.
Sometimes you just meet someone that makes you feel like... "how did I get this freakin' lucky?"
That's it. Very simple.
This song is amazing.
If you take the lyrics literally as if it is a song about one confused Galileo that doesn't know that a rainbow is a refraction of light...etc... you probably shouldn't listen to music.