Ivy League Blues - Phineas Newborn

I saw new England fall in the autumn

Professing themselves wise

They learned to be fools

I saw the picture-postcards and the majesty

And it died

If ever there was a key

To wisdom and knowledge

It is the cornerstone rejected by the world

If ever was a people so removed from absolutes

Absolutely

I heard the depth and height of information

Served on steaming tables of speculation

I understood the rite of education

For the sake of the elite

If ever there was a reason

It was love

If ever any person personified that love

It was Jesus

I heard the shot heard 'round the campus

It was the deification of humanity

One that had ceased to be human

One who pretended to be God

And I recalled another ruler

In the autumn of another time and place

He refused to give God the glory

And like dying leaves

In a cold cold land

Eaten up and died