The Go-Betweens - Streets of your town lyrics

You're desperately clutching at knowledge

Though blind belief always means bondage

Science won't solve life's big mysteries,

Don't you try to make me believe

With blind eyes and deaf ears we wander

Still you pretend to hear and see

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This world's wisdom is

Is anot her try

Just a round'bout way

To mind's borderline

A round'bout way

A dead alley

Discovering explaining researching

Judging without understanding

One answer = a million new questions

And you say you're close to the truth

Science won't solve life's big mysteries

How long will you refuse to see?!

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Straight ahead

At the speed of this century

With no look to the left or right

You race on and on and on

No enlightened, you close your eyes

So fast you don't move at all

So free like a slave you are bound

What if you'd change your way of thinkin'

Allow yourself a different view

Then turn your head to what seems foolish

And take the hand stretched out for you!

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