What does it mean to be human' What does it mean to be human'
I cannot help but suspect that, at one time in the history of thinking, that people believed that it meant that we were spiritual, that we could make choices and were capable of aspiring to higher ideals...like maybe loyalty, or maybe faith, or maybe even love.
But now we told by people who think they know, that we vary from amoeba only in the complexity of our makeup and not in what we essentially are,
They would have us think, as Dysart said, that we are forever bound up in certain genetic reigns, that we are merely products of the way things are and not free, not free to be the people who make them that way.
They would have us see ourselves as products so that we could believe that we were something to be made, something to be used and then something to be disposed of, Used in their wars, used for their gains, and then set aside when we get in their way,
Well, who are they'
They are the few who sit at the top of the heap, dung heap though it is, and who say it is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven,
Well, I do not know that we can have a Heaven here on earth, but I am sure we need not have a Hell here either,
What does it mean to be human'
I cannot help but believe that it means we are spiritual, that we are responsible, and that we are free,
That we are responsible to be free.

When I was back in high school they said, "Boy, try and make some sense; grow up and be a consumer and not a dissident,
Don't worry 'bout the system, just watch out for yourself,"
It sounded just like the wisdom that comes straight out of Hell,
They said, "Shut up, don't make no ripples,
Shut up, don't raise no stink,"
I heard so much of their drivel it's a wonder I can think.

Don't give me that; I want the truth,
Don't say for fact what is only point of view,
Don't give me that; I've had enough,
We best get back to what was written in the...the book of love.

Well, when I went to college,
They said, "Boy, get this straight: you're just a tailless monkey, you're a hairless ape,"
We're on a scary evolutionary stairway - who knows where'
Trusting higher education to get us all there,
There ain't no values, no morals,
There's no rights and no wrongs,
Never knowing where we're going,
Well, it's hard to go wrong.

Don't give me that; I want the truth,
Don't say for fact what is only your point of view,
Don't give me that; I've had enough,
We best get back to what was written in the...in the... in the book of love.

Higher,
Higher,
Higher education and the book of love.

When I came to my senses at the foot of the cross, I saw the wisdom that comes from the fear of God,
How it is pure, it loves peace, it's full of mercy and good fruit,
It had the power to free me: the power of the truth,
Like a setting of silver on an apple of gold,
Is a word aptly spoken'
Is the truth clearly told'

Now give me that, 'cause that's the truth, (higher, higher education)
It's bigger than fact, it's broader than your point of view,
Now give me that; I can't get enough, (higher, higher education)
When we get back to what was written in the...in the book of love,
Give me that, 'cause that's the truth, (higher education)
It's bigger than fact, it's broader than your...your point of view,
Now give me that; can't get enough, (higher)
When we get back to what was written in the...in the book of love.

Higher education and the book of love,
We need a higher...higher education and the book of love.

Higher,
Higher,
Higher,
Higher education and the book of love.

Higher,
Higher education and the book of love.

Higher education and the book of love.