I think the music does a better job of conveying the ideas than the lyrics do. Carefully listen to the music (ever technical, layered detail of it) while remembering that this song quotes Pythagoras.
If you don't quite get it after that, well, education probably just isn't your thing.
I'm not going to say anything about the previous poster's line "mathematician or astrologist or someone like that" other than to point out that it doesn't take a rocket scientist (or mathematician) to notice how numbers permeate all of nature.
"Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical
principle of rational order in the universe"
That's the meaning of not only this song, but the entire album.
I think the music does a better job of conveying the ideas than the lyrics do. Carefully listen to the music (ever technical, layered detail of it) while remembering that this song quotes Pythagoras. If you don't quite get it after that, well, education probably just isn't your thing.
I'm not going to say anything about the previous poster's line "mathematician or astrologist or someone like that" other than to point out that it doesn't take a rocket scientist (or mathematician) to notice how numbers permeate all of nature.
"Numbers are the essence of all things and the metaphysical principle of rational order in the universe" That's the meaning of not only this song, but the entire album.