Weddings and Wars Will Varley

'Bang' goes the big bang in the darkness and thunder
Adam and Eve were strands of bacteria
Blindly crawled with the birds and the bees
Few years on we climbed down from the trees
And we're standin' in Africa, lookin' at the sky
Saying "Why're we here? What happens when we die?"
We used God as a word for the things we can't see
Now put on some clothes and let's wait for TV

Well it doesn't take long till we're painting caves
Makin' some men kings and other men slaves
Sayin' "God is our reason and God is our leader
God spoke to me and he told me to kill ya."

We spread like a virus to every dark corner
Greeks and romans are layin' down borders
The slaves and the soldiers, the queens and the kings
Wherever they were, they all used to sing:

Birth, death, weddings and wars
That's all we are good for
If all of the past was played as a song
Our lives are a beat of the drum

Invading, enslaving, then trading the plunder
Tabaco and opium, tea leaves and sugar
Empires built with the bones of the slaughtered
A barrel of booze in return for your daughters and