Galileo - Cosimo's Surprise Lyrics

2024 world premiere
Galileo the Musical - Cosimo's Surprise Lyrics

COSIMO:
The future's still to be
These books I carry hold the key
Great man, you taught me well
Each word you spoke and wrote

I copied as well!

GALILEO:
I never knew it,
Why didn't you tell me?

COSIMO:
I couldn't risk that the
Inquisition would know!

GALILEO:
Is everything there?
All my equations?

COSIMO:
Every letter!
Your thoughts are safe with me

GALILEO:
But - my books are banned...
Throughout the land
You may have saved these
But no one else will know!

COSIMO:
For publication,
I found a nation,
Your friends in Flanders
Your words at last
Will be free
Will be free!

GALILEO:
Pray God, please let me see
The way you work, your mystery
I tried to understand
But you turned your Church on me...
Was that your plan?

My life has been one of creation
A song that sounded out of tune
A not of discord through the nation
How the melody was lost
So now a prisoner at home
I shouldn't really scream at that

I was spared the pain of Rome
But tell me just one thing

Pray God, please let me see
The way you work your mystery
I tried to understand
But you turned your Church on me...
Was that your plan?

Pray God, please let me see
The way you work, your mystery
I tried to understand
But All Along You Knew
I'd started a New Age
A New Age

The Earth's got motion
And the Earth's got speed
Now the brakes are off
There's all of science to feed
The page is blank
And it's the start of the show

For soon the world will know
We're starting a New Age
A New Age!

I made a lot of gadgets
Large and small
And I learnt a lot
About the way things fall
In years to come,
They'll wonder if I knew

How dreams were proven true
When starting a New Age
A New Age

HEAVENLY CHORUS:
You broke the mould, Galileo
The Churches hold, Galileo
You smashed, the crystal spheres
You chased the truth, Galileo
You raised the roof, Galileo
One man, against the world

GALILEO:
The Church has lost the war
Yet heaven is brighter that before
A test of God for man
To know his universe
His universe
His universe
His universe

Galileo the Musical Lyrics

In the Night
Forbidden
We Only Want to Know
Doin' the Maths
The Man with His Head in the Stars
Science Impossible
Push Back the Frontiers
Heaven Needs Me
Never Give Up
Pictures in My Head
The Magic Tube
New Age
Verdict Compromise
1633: The Trial
You Had It All
A Life in Flames
Cosimo's Surprise
Galileo Theme