Baba Brinkman - Worst Comes To Worst lyrics

Worst comes to worst, my people come first
But my tribe lives on every country on earth
I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt
The human race is what I serve

But who are my people?
Canadians? Family members?

Who knows? Maybe everybody!

Some people got good friend
I’ve got disparate friends
They live on different ends of earth
But just pretend we actually get to the end
Of the time of tribalism like Obama said
And dissolve the lines of difference
As man advances in civilization
And small tribes expand into larger bases

And communities
The truest reason tells each individual
That’s it’s not that difficult
To extend our instinctual
Sympathies to all the members of one nation
Like, for instance
Notice how everybody loves Canadians
Overseas, even if they’re personally unknown
Well so do I! But not so
Much when I come home
But, I know there’s nothing to
Stop me extending this basic

Sympathy to the people of all
Nations and all races by the way
Those are Charles Darwin’s statements
Paraphrased, a man ahead of his time
Extending his imagination and formidable mind
Into a future where all
Human sympathies combine

Worst comes to worst, my people come first
But my tribe lives on every country on earth
I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt
The human race is what I serve

In the South Pacific Islands
There’s certain animals that don’t
Experience fear, like Galapagos iguanas

They never had predators
So their adaptive responses
Evolved to be as calm as
A pack of Dalai Llamas
So then, why do we have to live with violence
When this whole planet could be
Like a pacifistic island?
Do we need fear to escape invading aliens?
The only predators here are
Called Homeo sapiens and yeah
We can be dangerous but we can also be
Motivated by affection and reciprocity
Or by that Old Testament animosity:
An eye for an eye
But that philosophy’s got the
Whole world blind
Let’s not pretend it’s gonna be
A cake-walk to end it
If violence is an instinct
It’s not entirely senseless
But the logic of human
Destiny is reciprocal altruism

Yes we can change our perspectives
And as soon as this is widely comprehended
Then I predict we’ll be as
Calm as Galapagos finches

Worst comes to worst, my people come first
But my tribe lives on every country on earth
I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt
The human race is what I serve