Joy Electric - The Works Of Unknowns (Horton's Summer Of '80 Mix) lyrics

Have to read patiently Books from past centuries Books of those rarely seen Hidden for ages Painted walls, protraits drawn of great empires and royal lawns Tapestries in banquet halls Vanished from memory Now there's nothing left to be shown The works of unknowns I divide, multiply Write what I learn and why Lecture to younger minds With sense and reason I devise formulas with chemical and minerals Ponder life through telescopes And question one's purpose Now there's nothing left to be shown The works of unknowns Have to be commonly known as one family Lengthy geneologies of who came before us Branches of family trees drawn by those after these Pages, proper histories, lived then forgotten