AmC
'Bang' goes the big bang in the darkness and thunder.
AmC
Adam and Eve were strands of bacteria.
AmC
Blind we crawled with the birds and the bees,
FG
Few years on we climbed down from the trees,
AmC
And were standin' in Africa, lookin' at the sky
AmC
Saying 'why we're here? What happens when we die? '
AmC
We used god as a word for the things we can't see,
FG
Now put on some clothes and let's wait for tv.
AmC
Well it doesn't take long 'till we're painting caves,
AmC
Makin' some men kings and other men slaves,
AmC
Sayin' God is our reason, God is our leader,
FG
God spoke to me and he told me to kill ya. '
AmC
We spread like a virus to every dark corner,
AmC
Greeks and romans are layin' down borders.
AmC
The slaves and the soldiers, the queens and the kings,
FG
Wherever they were, they all used to sing:
[Chorus]
AmEmFC
Birth, death, weddings and wars,
AmEmFC
That's all we are good for.
AmEmFC
If all of the past was played as a song,
AmGC
Then our lives are a beat of the drum.
[Verse 2]
AmC
Invading, enslaving, then trading the plunder,
AmC
Tobaco and opium, tea leaves and sugar.
AmC
Empires built with the bones of the slaughtered.
FG
A barrel of booze in return for your daughters and
AmEmFC
Birth, death, weddings and wars,
AmEmFC
Naissance, décès, mariage et guerre,
AmEmFC
Above the same earth, beneath the same stars,
AmGC
You can't hide the beast that we are.
AmC
Well by the dark ages we're gettin' into guns,
AmC
Still fightin' over god and who's got the right ones,
AmC
Still singin' and dancin', now we're paintin' on canvas,
FG
Pasting the time with our s** and our violence.
AmC
The west gets rich and it strangles the earth,
AmC
Romeo and Juliet can't make it work.
AmC
Factories, A-Bombs and Flying-Machines,
FG
Finally someone invents the tv.
[Chorus]
AmEmFC
And it's birth, death, weddings and wars,
AmEmFC
Naissance, décès, mariage et guerre,
AmEmFC
Above the same earth, beneath the same stars,
AmGC
You can't hide the beast that we are.
[Verse 3]
AmC
Instead of hunting now we go to Tescos,
AmC
Instead of talking now we wear headphones,
AmC
Instead of mountains we're heading for mars,
FG
Instead of god we have credit cards.
AmC
And we're still here two thousand and somethin',
AmC
No peace, economy is crashing,
AmC
Just singin' and dancin' and looking at the sky, sayin'
FG
'Why are we here? What happens when we die? '
[Chorus]
AmEmFC
Singing birth, death, weddings and wars,
AmEmFC
That's all we're good for.
AmEmFC
If all of the past was played as a song,
AmGF
Then our lives are a beat of the drum,
AmGC
Then our lives are a beat of the drum.