Do You Really Want to Know The sun once went around the earth According to the holy church Which helped to reassure People that they were The center of the universe One day his holiness, the Pope Met a man with a telescope And said "hey Mr. Galilei What does your spyglass say? And the scientist spoke... he said It's really quite amazing Entirely life-changing So let me ask before I show you— Do you really want to know? Emma read the bible for direction She said she was a child of heaven And that the human race Came from a higher place From the angels descended She wound up marrying her cousin He was a thinker of a husband Lost in thought, she'd find him And say "Charlie, what you writing?" Darwin looked up and said Do you really want to Let knowledge like a breeze In through the door of your belief Blow through the rooms and the corridors Knock cherished heirlooms to the floor That wind can raise the roof sometimes And leave you blinking at the sky So if you stare into this glass Beware that there's no going back You'll say "Sun Rise!" but it will refuse Instead, the earth itself will move And spin you 'round from dawn to dawn Amid the wonder of it all Do you really want to know?