MC Frontalot - Origin of Species lyrics
[MC Frontalot - Origin of Species lyrics]
Congregation, settle in your seats
The Reverend Front Aloud is on the
Mic and about to speak
I’m about to freak you out
Make you shiver in the pew
While I’m delivering to you my
Sermon and divinity ensues
Brought by the one true God it’s a fact:
Anybody else who ever had a God
Their God’s wack
We ain’t got to worry about ‘em
We picked the right horse
You’re in the right house of worship
(of course)
And forces are gathering out in the world
To diminish our faith in
Ways radical and thorough
To discourage us from loving
Anything that’s immaterial
To tempt our children with
Ever fruitier cereal and worst of all
To call us idiots while they do it
My congregation
Listen I’m about to walk you through it
We’re going to take the nation back
From the heathens that’s within it
We’re gonna get the most egregious
Of the atheists imprisoned
Cause a schism while we’re at it
But emerge on top
And once we’ve purified our
Ranks we won’t stop
We’ll purify your minds of
What’s illegitimately thought
It’s not to be a
Battle indiscriminately fought
But an orchestrated effort
And I’m gonna need you to commit
Might take a couple generations for
This deviltry to quit
Start with the kids in fact
They get distracted from the Lord
So I’d like you to write a
Couple letters to your school board
Do you, do you really believe
That we were nothing but them monkeys
Swinging up in the trees?
Don’t it seem a little likelier
That Adam and Eve did a lot of humping
And that was the origin of the species?
And what has this so-called science
Ever done for us
But trumpeted that when ashes go to
Ashes & dust to dust
Despite the fuss of living
Energy gets conserved
Denying the weight of the soul of
A man: this is ill deserved
This is still the curse of
Copernicus that we suffer
Secular thought ought not to
Overflow it's buffer
And run roughshod through the minds of you
The population heretics such as Dawkins and
Sagan overstep their station
To say that what we see and
What we believe should be confluent
Look to your Reverend to end
Apostasy that’s what I’m doing!
Look to your Holy Book to light
The way that is it's purpose
Open it up and you’ll find Eden
‘fore you even scratch the surface and sure
This should be mirrored in
The textbooks verbatim
But, I’m not in a position
Yet to issue ultimatum
So I lay down my scheme: we’ll
Make it seem as though creation
Isn’t anything we’d like to
Interject to education
We’ll wrangle up the language: science, data
Theorem
The irreducible complexity of the ears
We use to hear ‘em
Gnashing teeth and wailing from Kansas to PA
Yes, my flock
I talk of futures not imminent but underway
Already established an Institute
For Discovery
Discovered that Darwin is dead with
Outlook grim for recovery
Schoolmarms will soon say that he
Burns in a fiery sea
Think how much like paradise that’s gonna be
Do you, do you really believe
That we were nothing but them monkeys
Swinging up in the trees?
Don't it seem a little likelier
That Adam and Eve did a lot of humping
And that was the origin of the species?
The Reverend Front Aloud is on the
Mic and about to speak
I’m about to freak you out
Make you shiver in the pew
While I’m delivering to you my
Sermon and divinity ensues
Brought by the one true God it’s a fact:
Anybody else who ever had a God
Their God’s wack
We ain’t got to worry about ‘em
We picked the right horse
You’re in the right house of worship
(of course)
And forces are gathering out in the world
To diminish our faith in
Ways radical and thorough
To discourage us from loving
Anything that’s immaterial
To tempt our children with
Ever fruitier cereal and worst of all
To call us idiots while they do it
My congregation
Listen I’m about to walk you through it
We’re going to take the nation back
From the heathens that’s within it
We’re gonna get the most egregious
Of the atheists imprisoned
Cause a schism while we’re at it
But emerge on top
And once we’ve purified our
Ranks we won’t stop
We’ll purify your minds of
What’s illegitimately thought
It’s not to be a
Battle indiscriminately fought
But an orchestrated effort
And I’m gonna need you to commit
Might take a couple generations for
This deviltry to quit
Start with the kids in fact
They get distracted from the Lord
So I’d like you to write a
Couple letters to your school board
Do you, do you really believe
That we were nothing but them monkeys
Swinging up in the trees?
Don’t it seem a little likelier
That Adam and Eve did a lot of humping
And that was the origin of the species?
And what has this so-called science
Ever done for us
But trumpeted that when ashes go to
Ashes & dust to dust
Despite the fuss of living
Energy gets conserved
Denying the weight of the soul of
A man: this is ill deserved
This is still the curse of
Copernicus that we suffer
Secular thought ought not to
Overflow it's buffer
And run roughshod through the minds of you
The population heretics such as Dawkins and
Sagan overstep their station
To say that what we see and
What we believe should be confluent
Look to your Reverend to end
Apostasy that’s what I’m doing!
Look to your Holy Book to light
The way that is it's purpose
Open it up and you’ll find Eden
‘fore you even scratch the surface and sure
This should be mirrored in
The textbooks verbatim
But, I’m not in a position
Yet to issue ultimatum
So I lay down my scheme: we’ll
Make it seem as though creation
Isn’t anything we’d like to
Interject to education
We’ll wrangle up the language: science, data
Theorem
The irreducible complexity of the ears
We use to hear ‘em
Gnashing teeth and wailing from Kansas to PA
Yes, my flock
I talk of futures not imminent but underway
Already established an Institute
For Discovery
Discovered that Darwin is dead with
Outlook grim for recovery
Schoolmarms will soon say that he
Burns in a fiery sea
Think how much like paradise that’s gonna be
Do you, do you really believe
That we were nothing but them monkeys
Swinging up in the trees?
Don't it seem a little likelier
That Adam and Eve did a lot of humping
And that was the origin of the species?