| Song | Origin Of Species |
| Artist | MC Frontalot |
| Album | Favoritism |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 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 its 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 its 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. |
| 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 socalled 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 its 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 its 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. |
| 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 socalled 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 its 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 its 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. |