Ancient philosophy was framed by prodigies Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates And even though their thoughts were deemed The aristocratic voice They also had a thing for little boys Catherine the Great, so it's been said Needed large animals to be fulfilled in bed From historic rulers To the ancient Greeks We're standing on the shoulders of freaks "Isn't life pretty?" Ernest Hemingway once said And then he put a bullet through his head Salvador Dali's surreal paintings were godsent You'd never know he ate his own excrement Then there's da Vinci, for whom it required Dressing in women's underwear to be inspired From the great romantics To the ancient Greeks We're standing on the shoulders of freaks Truman Capote, needless to say Would be intoxicated 20 hours a day From the modern authors To the ancient Greeks We're standing on the shoulders of freaks We're standing on the shoulders of freaks