They'd spend a lifetime And fight over lines Which you and me Could never control I'm feeling a sense Of imaginable loss Over people I don't even know We used to be such intelligent animals Ohhh Lamenting the loss of intelligent animals If Darwin could see What we turned out to be He'd probably admit he was wrong So pray did St Christopher down on your knees 'Cause in 50 years we'll all be gone Oh oh We used to be such intelligent animals Ohhh So tell me where are these intelligent animals Ohhh Keep walking away you intelligent animals Animals, animals Ooooh now we behave like we lost all control
Now we behave like we lost all control Now we behave like Because Darfur is a place without history Darfur is a place without politics Darfur is simply a dot on the map It is simply a place, a site Where perpetrator confronts victim And the perpetrators name is Arab And the victims name is Africa And it is easy to demonize It is easy to hold a moral position which is emptied Of its political content This bothered me, and so I wrote about it Oooh Ohh, intelligent animals Intelligent animals Intelligent animals Intelligent animals And animals, animals