Beyond Mirrors Lyrics - Yello

The age of science has failed 

To explain our universe in rational terms. 

Consequently the power of magic 

Has gradually emerged from our conscious minds 

To fathom the unfathomable. 

Our most distinguished scientists 

Reluctantly admit that mankind is nothing 

But some billion creatures, 

Sitting on a piece of solar driftwood floating in space. 

Magic is the art of influencing the course 

Of events by the intervention 

Of spiritual forces or some other occult device. 

According to Arthur C. Clarke 

Any sufficiently advanced technology 

Is indistinguishable from magic. 

Early civilization often mistook 

The unexplainable world around them to be magic. 

Rupert Sheldrake in his book 

Seven experiments that could change the world 

Has stated that scientists' attitude 

Toward their experiments affect 

The results of their experiments. 

There is no such thing as a definite 

Fact in science and therefore the irrationality of magic 

Plays an important part in our rational world. 

Werner Heisenberg, the leading 20th century 

Physicist has stated that mass 

Is a physical interpretation of energy. 

Religious organizations have understood the power of magic 

And therefore monopolized the interpretation 

Of the supernatural to control the human mind. 

The universe as a whole is beyond explanation. 

Only at the end of the 20th. century 

The Roman-Catholic Church admitted, 

That the great visionary Galileo Galilei was in fact correct. 

The second millennium has come to an end. 

Scientists have to admit that the universe is magic.