Isaac Newton took a breath Just as Galileo left early on a Christmas morn his father was dead so mother found another man left him there to tend the land but Isaac was a genius and a terrible farmer
His grandma was head of the household But Isaac did what he was not told His grandma did everything she could But Isaac was watchin’ the light
fences lay in disrepair Isaac didn’t seem to care animals were runnin where the animals wanted Isaac made a list of words every planet every bird every stone he overturned to see what was under
they sent him to study at Cambridge which suited his nature obsessive the canon was mostly a fossil the classics back to Aristotle
coffee reached Europe and many said “it’s the drink of satan!” coffee reached Europe and put an end to the middle ages
then there came bubonic plague Londoners were diggin’ graves Cambridge students went away their classes suspended Isaac Newton went back home to his farmer’s house of stone contemplatin’ all alone happy and friendless
the prism dividin’ the light and the shadows that move on the sundial the cities were ringin’ their plague bells But Isaac was watchin’ the light
Galileo and Descartes showed him where to make a start takin’ time and space apart slicin’ and dicin’ Newton headed up the mint his eyes were lasers heart was flint If he found a coin was clipped there was a hangin’
so jealous of others’ success and so needy to make an impression he started with beautiful questions he ended with venom and bile
Isaac loved his solitude hated Leibnitz had a feud bitter rivalries ensued over the math prize Isaac was a bitter pill when he died he left no will probably a virgin still we’re lookin’ through his eyes
he never laid eyes on the ocean but Isaac deciphered its motion he died of a stone in the kidney he died unloved and in pain