Evolution's Dead Lyrics

We don't know what kind of games that we're playing

Claims we're portraying

Cut apart the code to the genes we're displaying

Breaking out the confines

Forget the guidelines

Darwin's way of thinking

Throw it to the sidelines

We can't stop

It's the perfect time

Humans redesigned

At the top

Say goodbye to God

This is our time

Don't know the games that we're playing

Claims we're portraying

Evolution's dead

Has been

Stop delaying

Academics getting worried

Rush into a new type of eugenics in a scurry

And the ethics getting blurry

Doctor He said, Can't stop in a hurry

Don't deter me, did it early

Might be wrong, did it anyway

Had the medical community in disarray

World Health Org said stop research underway

Embryos, not okay

Edit genes, too risque

Things that are better suited adapt to their environment

Improve reproduction, better survival to retirement

Could run its course but evolution has no aim

Mutations making matters worse and living everywhere's the same

We could go and make a case adjust our traits

For when the human race escapes to outer space

Survival of the species we are at stake

No taking breaks, slow and steady doesn't always win the race

We don't know what kind of games that we're playing

Claims we're portraying

Cut apart the code to the genes we're displaying

Breaking out the confines

Forget the guidelines

Darwin's way of thinking

Throw it to the sidelines

We can't stop

It's the perfect time

Humans redesigned

At the top

Say goodbye to God

This is our time

Don't know the games that we're playing

Claims we're portraying

Evolution's dead

Has been

Stop delaying

G,C,A,T

Everything you need to code a cro like you and me

We've got the brains, the brawn, the lock, the key

Charpentier and Doudna out here making history

Single wrong mutation leads us to a new disease

Genetic engineering engineers a death machine

One change to your genome caused cancer

Dead and gone, parents tried to make a better dancer

DNA inserted, deleted, modded, replaced

We don't know the implications affecting the human race

The natural process displaced

We rush into it with haste

Disgraced

Human beings erased, gone without a trace

Scientists saying insignificant to diversity

2010, brought to you by Oxford University

Dealing with diseases? Environmental distress?

Well genetic engineering can put those burdens to rest

Innovation, variation, save us from elimination

Conservation demonstration, leading us to condemnation

No one has an explanation but we can't stop

If we want to save the species then we're starting with the top

We don't know what kind of games that we're playing

Claims we're portraying

Cut apart the code to the genes we're displaying

Breaking out the confines

Forget the guidelines

Darwin's way of thinking

Throw it to the sidelines

We can't stop

It's the perfect time

Humans redesigned

At the top

Say goodbye to God

This is our time

Don't know the games that we're playing

Claims we're portraying

Evolution's dead

Has been

Stop delaying