Текст песни: Weddings and Wars + перевод

'Bang' goes the big bang in the darkness and thunder

Adam and Eve were strands of bacteria

Blind we crawled with the birds and the bees

Few years on we climbed down from the trees

And were standin' in Africa, lookin' at the sky

Saying «Why we’re 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

Tobaco and opium, tea leaves and sugar

Empires built with the bones of the slaughtered

A barrel of booze in return for your daughters and

Birth, death, weddings and wars

Naissance, décès, mariage et guerre

Above the same earth, beneath the same stars

You can’t hide the beast that we are

Well by the dark ages we’re gettin' into guns

Still fightin' over god and who’s got the right ones

Still singin' and dancin', now we’re paintin' on canvas

Pasting the time with our sex and our violence

The west gets rich, it strangles the earth

Romeo and Juliet can’t make it work

Factories, A-Bombs and Flying-Machines

Finally someone invents the TV

And it’s birth, death, weddings and wars

Naissance, décès, mariage et guerre

Above the same earth, beneath the same stars

You can’t hide the beast that we are

Instead of hunting now we go to Tescos

Instead of talking now we wear headphones

Instead of mountains we’re heading for Mars

Instead of God we have credit cards

And we’re still here two thousand and somethin'

No peace, economy is crashing

Singin' and dancin' and looking at the sky, sayin'

«Why are we here? What happens when we die?»

Singing birth, death, weddings and wars

That’s all we’re good for

If all of the past was played as a song

Then our lives are a beat of the drum

Then our lives are a beat of the drum

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