Ivory Tower

(Dexter Kozen)



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verse	[Em G C] x3
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chorus	[D Am Em] x2
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extro	 Em G C D Em


Professor, you've been babbling for an hour Immune from life outside your ivory tower Your arguments are slick and error-free They may make sense to you but not to me Your theorems cannot feed a hungry mouth Your lemmas can't erase mistrust and doubt Your corollaries are so squeaky-clean Has anybody asked you what they mean? Ignorance was surely bliss There must be more to science than this No longer shall I be impressed No longer is my soul possessed I came for wisdom and philosophy Instead I found deferred reality Relevance is nowhere to be found Common sense is six feet underground Politicians lead us to the sea Fanatics kill each other off with glee If war broke out, I would not be surprised Perhaps the syllabus should be revised Maybe I'll return someday Then I could while the hours away Chronicling my thoughts and deeds In journals no one ever reads (solo over verse + chorus) repeat last verse + chorus