How Can It Be - Mark Seibert

Lyrics by：Michael Kunze

Composed by：Sylvester Levay

I've read Francis Bacon and studied the bible

And learned and enlightened and knowing

The triumph of logic and science is vital

For keeping man's mastery growing

I know without a doubt

That reason can find out how things are going

I trust in education

And yet I am at my wit's end

What defies all explanation

I refuse to understand

Dear Lord how can it be

It's baffling me

You gave us science and good sense

To save us all from hell

How can it be that all the rules

Of a reason and society

Are undone by music's magic spell

A child can be trained to do things that are awesome

The key is a good education

The gift is a seed

If you want it to blossom

It certainly needs cultivation

Although it's clear to me

Seeing the mystery

I can't play possum

Every work needs some correction

There are flaws in everyone

Here is absolute perfection

And I don't know how it's done

Dear Lord how can it be

It's baffling me

You gave us science and good sense

To save us all from hell

How can it be that all the rules

Of a reason and society

Can be undone by music's magic spell

How can it be

That all the rules of a reason and society

Can be undone

By such an arrogant impertinent disorderly discourteous anomaly

Tenacious mischief-maker

And by music's magic spell