Philosophy

1.        Those ancient Greeks they real geeks
As knowledge they pursued
And Socrates and Plato they were real clever dudes,
To fathom out life’s mysrteries
They both felt the call
Postulated their hypotheses
To make sense of it all

2.        More recently Rene Descartes
Said we think therefore we am;
And others they soon followed on
To add to the pile of spam
Of essence and existence
They got in a total stew
And the more they disagreed
The more hot air they blew.

Spinoza can’t help you when your bills are overdue
And Leibnitz can’t cure you of a bad dose of the flu,
Kirkegarde’s no use when you’re stuck in a traffic queue.
And Wittgenstein can’t get rid of that pebble in your shoe
And so to the conclusion we inevitably come
Philosophy is bugger all use to anyone.

3.        We now have endless “isms” coming out of our ears
And professors on megabucks plot out a good career,
Though their opinions differ, they can’t all be right
Which means that some are being paid for spouting a load of Schopenhaur.

Spinoza can’t help you when your bills are overdue

4.        Now science can make progress to improve the lives we live
And novelists and songwriters have important gifts to give
But I fail to see how Schrodinger’s cat can change our daily lives
As philosophers just pass their time gazing up their own backsides.

Spinoza can’t help you when your bills are overdue
Is this really a table seems such a daft question
Philosophy is bugger all use to anyone