Lyrics Act 3 - Who Is Abrahm? - Steve Reich , Paul Hillier

Uh, Abraham Lincoln
(Abraham)
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln
Uh, Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln High School
High on the hilltop, midst sand and sea
(Abraham, Abrahan)

Lincoln High School
High on the hilltop, midst sand and sea
That's about as far as I trace Abram
If I thought, if I thought, if I thought of Abraham
I would think of the Abraham and Isaac story
And I'd think of Renaissance and Mannerist art
(Renaissance and Mannerist art)
Mannerist art
(Renaissance and Mannerist art)

Mannerist art

I have no idea
(No idea, I have no idea)
I have no idea, I have no idea
(I have no idea, I have no idea)
(No idea, no idea)
I have no idea, I have no idea
(I have no idea)
I have no idea who Abraham is or what he represents
Our mythology
(Mythology, our mythology)
The Bible is our mythology
The Bible
Irrelevant
Irrel, irrel, irrelevant
(Irrelevant)
The Bible introduced
Introduce, introduced
Introduced and forgotten
Our mythology
In the drawer
In the drawer
In the drawer
In the drawer
In the drawer
In the drawer
In the drawer at the hotel

And when you read
And when you read
(And when you read)
And when you read
(And when you read)

And when you read
(And when you read)
And when you read, when you read
And when you read the Bible, it's God speaking to you
Speaking to you
And you speak back to God in prayer
When people say
When people say
(When people say to me)
When people say
(When people say to me)
When people say
(When people say to me)
When people say
When people say
(When people say to me)
When people say
(When people say to me)
When people say to me it has nothing to say to us
I think they've never read it
Old Testament, never read it
(Never, never read it)
Never read it, never read it
Old Testament, never read it
The Old Testament is
(The Old Testament is)
The Old Testament is history
The Hebrew word has nothing old about it
(Nothing old about it)
Nothing old about it
Torah, teaching
Jesus is traced back to Abraham
(Back to Abraham)
Traced back to, back to Abraham
A father of the faithful
(A father)
Of the faith
Of the faith
The father of faith
(A father)
Father of faith
Father of faith
Father of, father of faith
(A father)
Father of faith
Father of, father of faith

I think of Abraham, uh, like this
It's, uh, 2100 B.C. or thereabouts
He's living in the third dynasty of Ur
It's a polytheistic society
The, uh, chief god is, uh, Nanna
Who is the moon god
Abraham grows up, he's a city kid
His father makes idols, he crafts idols
God says, "Go"
(Ah, ah)
"I'll show you where later"
Abraham ups and leaves
Just leave mother, father, and everybody else and go
Abraham ups and leaves