"The Flavors of the Quark"
lyrics by Benjamin Newman
ttto: "The Colors of the Wind" by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz

/ C Am / C Em / Am F / DmG Am(C) /

You think you see the stuff the world is made of
And understand how particles behave
But I know every particle of matter
Is a dance, is a process, is a wave

You think that you can peek behind the curtain
And find out every fact that you don't know
But even the electron isn't certain
Where it is, or else which way it wants to go

	/ Am EmF / Am Em / F EmAm / DmG C /

	Have you ever seen the photons going through two slits
	Interfering into bands of light and dark?
	Can you paint with all the colors of the gluon?
	Have you tasted all the flavors of the quark?

Come break the hidden structure of the proton
Come measure all the fragments that fly free
Come tabulate their mass and charge and half-life
And at last begin to guess what they might be

For energy and matter are related
And particle and wave can interchange
And through the shock and chaos of collision
We see glimpses of a beauty new and strage

	Can one particle decide which way another spins
	Even though they're more than lightspeed far apart?
	Can we paint with all the colors of the gluon?
	Will we taste the many flavors of the quark?

		/ EmAm EmAm / DmG FG /

		If God's not the gambling kind
		How would photons act when they're intertwined?

	And however would the muon know how long to wait
	Before it dies as a neutrino and a spark?
	We need to paint with all the colors of the gluon
	We need to taste the many flavors of the quark

		/ DmG EmF / Am G C - /

		We can speculate and guess but we'll never know unless
		We have tasted all the flavors of the quark!