[verse1: funky49]

Failure defiant, mad sweat on the brow

We found triumph and we gonna fly now

Studied long and hard

To the break of dawn cause we

Practiced too much to get it all wrong

First believers, underdogs to achievers

Cheers of peers now we got the fever

Thank the teachers

We had the finest

We are standing on the shoulders of giants

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Triumph... On the shoulders of Giants

(that's where we stand!) x2

[verse2: AlpineKat]

Minds from the past, yo they laid down tracks

That you can build on, divert from, make your own path

New advances owe a debt to the expanse of history

Like the two old rings that feed the LHC

Cuz every great breakthrough needs to be refined

Correct the theories of the Curies, Darwin and Einstein

Lifted on their shoulders see what no one’s seen before

Ain’t nothing like discovery makes a human spirit soar

[verse3: funky49]

Greeks got elite in Egyptian sheets all right with

Brains boosted with solutions from old Kemites

Plato gave way to Descartes Rene, read by Franklin

Proud of his farts but

Ben was hated by transcendentists cause

Too much reason got them all pissed, they were

Nature lovin', gut trustin Gs

Who inspired the actions of the great Ghandi

Slick Rick tick-tock didn't stop

Afrika Bambatta made the whole Planet... Rock

Kraftwerk interpolated made his craft work

Vocode the hook, track goes berserk

Previous teachers and all the past masters

Figured things out so now we doing it faster

Their lessons are blessin's finest

We are standing on the shoulders of giants

HOOK