Rich Mullins - Higher Education And The Book Of Love lyrics

"INTRO ~ What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be human? I cannot help but suspect that at one time in the history of thinking that people believed that it meant that we were spiritual and that we could make choices and were capable of aspiring to higher ideals... like maybe loyalty or maybe faith... or maybe even love. But now we are told by people who think they know, that we vary from amoeba only in the complexity of our makeup and not in what we essentially are. They would have us think as Dysart said that we are forever bound up in certain genetic reigns - that we are merely products of the way things are and not free - not free to be the people who make them that way. They would have us see ourselves as products so that we could believe that we were something to be made - something to be used and then something to be disposed of. Used in their wars - used for their gains and then set aside when we get in their way. Well, who are they? They are the few who sit at the top of the heap - dung heap though it is - and who say it is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. Well, I do not know that we can have a Heaven here on earth, but I am sure we need not have a Hell either. What does it mean to be human? I cannot help but believe that it means we are spiritual - that we are responsible and that we are free - that we are responsible to be free." "When I was back in high school They said boy try and make some sense Grow up and be a consumer And not a dissident Don't worry 'bout the system Just watch out for yourself It sounded just like the wisdom That comes straight out of Hell They said (shut up) don't make no ripples (Shut up) don't raise no stink I heard so much of their drivel It's a wonder I can think Don't give me that I want the truth Don't say for fact What is only point of view Don't give me that I've had enough We best get back to what was written In the in the Book of love Well when I went to college They said boy get this straight You're just a tailless monkey You're a hairless ape We're on a scary evolutionary stairway Who knows where Trusting higher education To get us all there There ain't no values no morals There's no rights and no wrongs Never knowing where we're going Well it's hard to go wrong Don't give me that I want the truth Don't say for fact What is only your point of view Don't give me that I've had enough We best get back to what was written In the in the in the Book of love (Higher) (Higher) (Higher education and the Book of Love) When I came to my senses At the foot of the cross I saw the wisdom that comes From the fear of God How it is pure it loves peace It's full of mercy and good fruit It had the power to free me The power of the truth Like a setting of silver On an apple of gold Is a word aptly spoken Is the truth clearly told Now give me that 'Cause that's the truth It's bigger than fact It's broader than your point of view Now give me that Can't get enough When we get back to what was written In the in the Book of love Now give me that 'Cause that's the truth It's bigger than fact It's broader than your your point of view Now give me that Can't get enough When we get back to what was written In the in the Book of love Higher education and the Book of Love Higher education and the Book of Love Higher education and the Book of Love Higher education and the Book of Love Higher education and the Book of Love"