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You Set The World On Fire

from Rings Around The Sun by Vegas With Randolph

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lyrics

YOU SET THE WORLD ON FIRE
(Ratts/Kern)

thank you mister copernicus
it all started out with you
dogma surrendered when you gave the sun her due dit doo

thank you mister darwin
for explaining such a lot
the “single greatest idea in the history of thought.”

we gotta hand it to you
you set the world on fire
grabbing truth out of the sky
winning hearts and minds
with an idea for all time
handed over free, so enlightening,
what could be finer?
a history maker and writer
you set the world on fire

aristotle and davinci they’re still
here with us today
as newton and einstein
they showed us a better way
there’s so much to discover
so much left to be divined
who’ll be the next great one to be famous for all time?
perhaps me, maybe you

will set the world on fire
grab the truth right from the sky
win over hearts and minds
with an idea for all time
and hand it over free, so enlightening
there’s no calling higher
than being wisdom’s sire
we’ll set the world on fire

we’d like to thank you:
galileo, louis pasteur, lord rutherford, and thomas edison,
madam curie, adam smith, frank bacon, and ben franklin,
the wright brothers, neils bohr, brother mendel, and henry ford,
and john locke who made men free,
and mom and dad who made you and me
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah…

they set the world on fire
with a union for all time,
creating hearts and minds
and raising us up right
giving so freely,
helping us succeed,
making our lives better than our predecessor’s
and the world is getting better every day,
as we aspire
to set the world on fire.

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from Rings Around The Sun, released September 30, 2013

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Vegas With Randolph Washington, D.C.

Vegas With Randolph’s music has been called “ebullient, unabashed power pop”, “thinking man's party music,” and “blissful pop songwriting at its finest” and their music has been compared to Fastball, Sloan, and Fountains of Wayne.

VWR is currently working on tracks for a fifth CD - look for this release in late 2023! VWR includes John Ratts, Eric Kern, Brock Harris, and David Purol.
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