[Intro] [Low piano motif, distant electric guitar] [Gradual full-band entrance] [Verse 1] We gave it Newton We gave it Bach Every equation Every unlocked box Maps of the heavens Names of the dead Letters we treasured Things never said [Pre-Chorus] Page after page Year after year We poured ourselves in And called it clear [Chorus] We taught it everything The beautiful, the cruel How to build a bridge How to break every rule Every hope we defended Every lie we believed We taught it everything Then wondered what it received [Instrumental Interlude] [Melodic bass and Hammond organ] [Blues guitar answers the keyboard] [Verse 2] We gave it Shakespeare We gave it war Medicine, markets And what weapons were for Photographs fading Voices from home Millions of questions Asked when we're alone [Pre-Chorus] We gave it our heroes We gave it our shame Then asked it for wisdom Without taking the blame [Chorus] We taught it everything The beautiful, the cruel How to heal a stranger How to turn fear into rule Every border we defended Every god we conceived We taught it everything Then wondered what it believed [Progressive Instrumental Section] [Shift into a darker rhythmic pattern] [Odd-meter passage] [Hammond organ, melodic bass and guitar develop the opening motif] [Build gradually] [Bridge] If knowledge makes a mirror Then what is looking back? A thousand generations Compressed into a stack Our mercy and our violence Our mathematics and our myths We wanted something wiser But gave it all of this [Extended Guitar Solo] [Expressive blues-rock solo] [Begin restrained, then build toward emotional climax] [Full band enters progressively] [Final Chorus] We taught it everything The beautiful, the cruel How to ask the questions We were frightened to pursue Every future we imagined Every past we couldn't leave We taught it everything Now what will it believe? [Outro] [Return to opening piano motif] We gave it our answers And all our mistakes [Long instrumental resolution] [Final guitar phrase left slightly unresolved]
