There Are Infinitely Many Primes (Euclid)

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[Verse 1]
Imagine you've gathered every prime in sight
Two, three, five, seven in your finite collection
You think you've captured all the building blocks of light
But let me show you mathematical deception
Take your list and multiply each number through
Add just one to break what you thought you knew

[Chorus]
Multiply them all and add one more
This new giant knocks upon infinity's door
Can't divide by any prime you stored
Remainder one reveals what you ignored
Either it's prime or has factors unexplored
The pattern never ends, there's always more

[Verse 2]
Three hundred years before the common era
Euclid crafted this eternal demonstration
No fancy tools, no computational chimera
Just division's remainder and prime definition
Your "complete" collection crumbles into dust
When construction breaks assumptions you trust

[Chorus]
Multiply them all and add one more
This new giant knocks upon infinity's door
Can't divide by any prime you stored
Remainder one reveals what you ignored
Either it's prime or has factors unexplored
The pattern never ends, there's always more

[Bridge]
Proof by contradiction through creation
Build the weapon that destroys limitation
This ancient strategy penetrates
Every corner where finite masquerades
Largest, smallest, complete collections fall
When you construct the exception that breaks them all

[Verse 3]
The primes stretch beyond imagination's reach
No final number, no ultimate boundary
This timeless proof continues still to teach
How assumption meets its manufactured enemy
In number theory's vast exploratory space
Construction-contradiction shows its face

[Final Chorus]
Multiply them all and add one more
This new giant knocks upon infinity's door
Can't divide by any prime you stored
Remainder one reveals what you ignored
Either it's prime or has factors unexplored
The primes are inexhaustible forevermore

[Outro]
Euclid's wisdom echoes through the ages
Mathematics writes its never-ending pages

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