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Idiots Are Taking Over(Chords)

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 It's not the right time to be sober 
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Now the idiots have taken over 
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 Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer? 

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 Mensa membership conceding 
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 Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding 
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 Watson, it's really elementary 
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The industrial revolution 
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Has flipped the bitch on evolution  
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The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer 
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The world keeps getting dumber 
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Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason 

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Darwin's rolling over in his coffin 
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The fittest are surviving much less often 
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Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening 
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Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool 
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Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule 
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And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston 
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 Stranded on a primate planet 
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Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground 
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With generals and the armies that obeyed them 
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 Followers following fables 
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 Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard 

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      There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated 
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 Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred 
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 Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions 
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 Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand  
            
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Biggest solutions 
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What are we left with? 
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A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists 
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Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland 
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Pass on traditions 
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How to get ahead religions 
         D                    A 
And prosperity via simpleton culture 

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The idiots are taking over 
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The idiots are taking over 
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The idiots are taking over 
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The idiots are taking over
	        

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