Scratching the Surface

So what if I can answer every sort of inquiry?
So what if all my knowledge spans the course of history?
At best I'd be a clanging cymbal or a sounding gong
At worst I'd be a know-it-all who got everything wrong

We only scratch the surface of things
We only glimpse the underpinnings
We only see the shadow that's cast
But someday, someday we'll see it all at last

So what if I can plumb the depths all biology?
So what if I can scale the heights of all cosmology?
At most I'd be one who can see but never understands
At worst I'd miss the beach but clearly see a grain of sand

We only scratch the surface of things
We only glimpse the underpinnings
We only see the shadow that's cast
But someday, someday we'll see it all at last

Do you think you'd like to know?
Well there's knowing and knowing
And the two are not the same
No, no, no

We only scratch the surface of things
We only glimpse the underpinnings
We only see the shadow that's cast
But someday, someday we'll see it all at last
We'll see it all at last

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