Waves

If one were to exist in a world without research
Without academic inquiry or a new technology
If all intellectual fields of science were forbidden
It'd make the act of gathering knowledge criminal
Would people be guided by mythology or astrology
Would all higher research then need to be hidden
The world would become foolish, dull, and juvenile
With questions without answer, no cure for cancer
To live our small lives, ignorant to reach for more
To live without meeting the intellectual potential
Would there still be questions burning in our core
With no phones, no computers, no radios or flight
No film, music or the lights to brighten the night
Would we have any means to express ourselves
Or have a chance to ascend beyond savagery
Or would we just exist, ignorant and blissful
Never thinking, our dreams made arbitrary
Nothing inside us wanting to soar