Meliora Sequamur-Ian Anderson

[ti:Meliora Sequamur] [ar:Ian Anderson] [al:Homo Erraticus] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Meliora Sequamur - Ian Anderson [00:15.98]Mortarboard gown hood and lace come [00:18.86]Guide me in learning in ascension [00:23.01] [00:24.16]Where minds may meet and twitters [00:27.30]Tweet in modern Latin in declension [00:32.66]O Domine O Magister we aspiring angels sing [00:40.88]With one tongue forever young [00:44.79]Let us follow better things [00:48.42] [00:49.74]In saintly word and perfect grammar [00:53.74]To Academia's lofty space [00:57.46] [00:58.26]The trivium quadrivium all baser [01:03.46]Thoughts now to efface [01:06.00] [01:06.68]O Domine O Magister we aspiring angels sing [01:14.34] [01:14.92]With one tongue forever young [01:18.28] [01:18.87]Let us follow better things [01:22.52] [01:23.88]Cruel Bunter bashing cane a thrashing [01:27.89]Lines detention soon forgot [01:31.59] [01:32.41]O dark ploy This grammar school boy [01:36.02]Has paid the price and bought the lot [01:39.89] [01:40.98]In the quiet hours of life's twilight [01:44.74]Old school ties and photographs [01:48.70]I call to mind the sore behind the [01:52.82]Tears the last and longest laughs [01:56.62] [02:27.20]Empty desks and inkwells darkened [02:30.51]Chapels cobweb corridors silent now [02:34.38] [02:35.98]Ghostly purple robes and dusty trencher [02:39.32] [02:39.85]What could be holier than thou [02:42.88] [02:44.10]O Domine O Magister we aspiring angels sing [02:52.39]With one tongue forever young [02:56.24]Let us follow better things [02:59.94] [03:00.48]Meliora sequamur may we follow better things