by Gary Powell
This painting depicting Galileo’s trial in front of the Catholic church tribunal hung in my brother’s, Joe Powell, house for years. While researching the seminal events where individuals stood up against the institution, this great painting came to mind. When I found the image, I asked my brother, “Is this the painting you had in your house?” He answered, “Yes it is, how about those BOYS IN RED?” The song title was born in that instant and I knew I had another historical piece to interpret musically where power tries to subdue truth.
Perhaps people who focus on their own ethical standards don’t have time to tell the rest of us what’s right.
– Joe M. Powell, Director
The Rice University Building Institute
by Gary Powell<\/p>\n
This painting depicting Galileo’s trial<\/a> in front of the Catholic church tribunal hung in my brother’s, Joe Powell, house for years. While researching the seminal events where individuals stood up against the institution, this great painting came to mind. When I found the image, I asked my brother, “Is this the painting you had in your house?” He answered, “Yes it is, how about those BOYS IN RED?” The song title was born in that instant and I knew I had another historical piece to interpret musically where power tries to subdue truth. <\/p>\n Perhaps people who focus on their own ethical standards don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have time to tell the rest of us what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right. <\/center> Music and Lyrics by Gary Powell<\/i><\/p>\n Verse 1<\/u> The boys in red, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a light-hearted clan Chorus 1<\/u> Verse 2<\/u> To sit in judgment is a wonderful thing Gallileo<\/u> Do you believe… Do you believe… Do you believe… Verse 3<\/u> Rational thought is not a man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s thing (Copyright Jesmax Music, BMI 2005)<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Joe M. Powell<\/a>, Director
The Rice University Building Institute<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Painting](\"http:\/\/www.garypowell.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/wp-photos\/galileo_trial.gif\")
<\/p>\nThe Boys in Red<\/h2>\n
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re elevated cats and even though we cavort
\nWe don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get too concerned with the appellant court
\nWe blow a little smoke, but to keep your head
\nYour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna have to answer to the boys in red<\/p>\n
\nWe try to comprehend the new ideas that we ban
\nWe burn at the stake and just as often behead
\nSo, listen very closely to the boys in red
\nThe boys in red<\/p>\n
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the boys in red and behind closed doors
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ramping up rhetoric for the Punic Wars
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the boys in red and our claim to fame
\nIs spinning up the fear with a sense shame
\nShame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame<\/p>\n
\nYes, you know who we are, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a real plus
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause we talk to God, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, you talk to us
\nSince we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the holy rollers and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not widespread
\nYou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re gonna have to answer to the boys in red<\/p>\n
\nWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wanna-be pontiffs of the most right-wing
\nWe decide who starves and we decide who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fed
\nCause everybody answers to the boys in red<\/p>\n
\nI see the scientific legacy won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be born here in this court
\nCritical analysis is nothing soon you will support
\nThere is no higher standard than what nature really is
\nGod or not your red hats are hot so take this little quiz<\/p>\n
\nin the uniform rate of acceleration?
\n…that a falling body is proportional to the square of the number of seconds it has been falling?<\/p>\n
\nin inertia or the first law of motion?
\n……that a moving body without retarding forces like friction would continue moving indefinitely?<\/p>\n
\nthat Copernicus was right? And if God really does have the whole world in his hands, he is not juggling it around us!<\/p>\n
\nTake a gander gather round this heretic
\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saying crazy stuff that makes us just sick
\nHe looks at night to heaven, but before it all spreads
\nNow he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to answer to the boys in red<\/p>\n
\nHe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a spiritual mandate from the far left-wing
\nSo don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think, feel, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll decide what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s read
\nSo you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never have to answer to the boys
\nThe boys in red
\nThe boys is red<\/p>\n