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Temptation (ensemble edition) (Remastered)

Quick, quick you must decide On which side of history you will reside. The discoverer, the founder fair, The Nobel prize you’ll share Or to history’s poor memory Pass with 155 artarticicles les from from your your pen pen As As balance balance of of your your wit wit and and ken ken QuickQuick, let, let’s ’s hurhurry ry With grand flurry Quick, let’s publish Quick, let’s hurry, Quick let’s money fame and glory curry Quick, let’s hurry, Quick, let, let’s ’s hurhurryry, hur, hurryry, hur, hurry All I wanted to do is touch the sky Seek to unravel puzzles divine Now I see defeat hovering in the air Once so close the answer hangs only by a hairQuick, let’s hurry ete The The rush rush of of naturenature’’s s mystermysteries ies defeat defeat HurHurryry, hur, hurryry, hurry, hurry.... , hurHurry, hurry, hurry, hurry.... Hurry, hurry, hurryry, hur, hurrry.... Nature y.... Nature leaves leaves the the portportrait rait just just shy shy of of perfeperfection ction By By one one minminor or brush brush strostrokekes s dedeft ft defedefection ction And And even even if if the the pictpicture’ure’s s wholewhole, the , the storystory’s ’s complete complete Data Data pointpoints s ababoundound, the , the infinformormation ation rerepletpletee….. Un….. Unlike like a a MonMona a LLisaisa, there, there’’s s no no joyjoy, no , no shimmering shimmering hue Beauty Beauty is ionly s in only the in tthe tale ale first first told All I wanted to do is touch the sky Seek to unravel puzzles divine Now I see defeat hovering in the air Once so close the answer hangs only by a hairQuick, let’s hurry With grand flurry Quick, let’s publish Quick, let’s hurry, Quick let’s money fame and glory curry Quick, let’s hurry, [TEMPTATION] It’s not only your scientific memory the goal here This wonder will benefit all of mankind it’s clear Experiments are complete, you have assured me It’s not just you whose life is at stake Consider your students, consider the direction they’ll take Banks here, has invested two years in this experiment You’ll allow all this effort to be irrelevant? [VP TEMPTATION AND BANKS] Quick, let’s hurry, Quick, let’s publish With grand flurry Quick, let’s hurry, Quick, let’s money fame and glory curry Quick, let’s hurry, Quick, let’s let the others run and scurry Quick, let’s hurry, hurry [SOAMES - chorus continues underneath with “quick, let’s hurry, hurry!”] Is there, is there a flaw in this our best Or do we hesitate, doubt in our breast? Surely, we know our science well Why on past defeats do we dwell? All I wanted to do is touch the sky Seek to unravel puzzles divine Now I see defeat hovering in the air Once so close the answer hangs only by a hairQuick, let’s hurry With grand flurry Quick, let’s publish Quick, let’s hurry, Quick let’s money fame and glory curry Quick, let’s hurry,