Fruits & Vegetables (Thanks For Trying)

At any given second throughout every single day There's half the world getting ready for bed or asleep The other half awake At any second there are sure to be marriages, arguments People making love, and flirting Crying laughing Studying going to school There are thunderstorms ocean waves Lots of murders lots of babies being born Every single second How did we get to be 8 billion people on this spinning Hunk of water and rock, it was less than Half of that when I was born There are too many storied to listen to Too much to learn Too many ways to understand people And so many unanswered questions Stupid categorizations we make Science is just the way people have categorized What they experience It's not nature, it is how people understand nature And believe me when I say we're still in the dark ages In a couple of hundred years we've really taken off though And if our understanding continues we'll be into a new age Soon, one where we can actually make nature work in our favor Bringing human potential forward in a vast expanse of knowledge Going further than any sci fi story can even dream We're right on the cusp of great change a new world and a new reality But I think maybe we should look around first And appreciate what we've got, what our ancestors lived through How they lived, struggled We ought to take a breath and have a reverence for the past And what people are doing right now, in the face of life before People got out of these dark ages When they look back at us and see how we grew And what held us back I wonder what they'll think The way we scientifically categorize our food is so different From what we're taught, not that it matters But stuff like this has to apply to other things too in science We're just not seeing it correctly For instance, in the study of botany they list fruit as Something edible that grows from the flower of a plant and Has seeds which can grow new plants Vegetables are defined as an edible plant So fruits grow from the flower of a plant you can eat And vegetables are an edible plant that doesn't Come from a flower or have seeds, but has stems Leaves, roots, bulbs or tubers, like a potato So scientifically, botanically, by the real definition of fruit Tomato is a fruit, it comes from the flower of the plant and has seeds Cucumber is a fruit, pumpkin is a fruit Beans, olives, avocado, hot peppers, bell peppers They're all fruits Zucchini is a fruit, let that sink in Squash is a fruit I feel like I've been lied to all these years Green peas are a fruit, and who would have guessed That the most popular fruit Of all was really a fruit? Corn While it might not matter how things are categorized Or what people think of their food I think there's a point to be made that people Need to be open to seeing science for what it is It's humanity's understanding of what they experience If regular folks misunderstood things like botany Lived their whole lives harmlessly thinking wrongly then What scientists, who are really regular folks too What scientists might be misunderstanding things about physics Biology and chemistry that may be able to open their minds To other possibilities, other categorizations Which may open up new ideas, even new branches of science A couple years ago there was a trend to say something about nature Then say "thanks science" instead of praising a god, a push toward Totalitarianism in the west, really, is what it was But now I'm thinking yeah, our understanding of this world, this universe Has a long way to go, but wow, what we can understand is amazing Truly awesome. And in praise of the women and men who have Given their lives in pursuit of science, I really want to commend them For the work attempting to benefit us, and say you worked really hard To get us this far into the dark ages. Thanks for trying