Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Bad Things Happen, artist - Baba BrinkmanDate of issue: 22.10.2015
Song language: English
Bad Things Happen |
| Let’s take a measure of the misery and pain |
| Suffered every second by every sentient being |
| With a brain, with a sensory experience |
| Sufficient to feel terrified, tortured, or furious |
| Subtract the ones who must have done somethin' |
| To justify this kind of comeuppance |
| And what’s left is the innocent remainder |
| Poor little lambs and babies in a manger |
| Who’s responsible for this calamity? |
| Natural disaster, deaths in the family |
| Tragedy strikes, and the victims react |
| With religion |
| that’s a well-known fact |
| Add up the infant mortality, pathogens |
| Infections, violent crimes and cancer deaths |
| And you end up with a «suffering index» |
| And the bigger that is, the bigger religion gets |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Good things happen to bad people |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Bad things happen, bad things happen |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Good things happen to bad people |
| Any god who could change that |
| But chose not to |
| is evil |
| Here’s a catch-22 to grapple with |
| Religious people tend to be higher in happiness |
| And when tragedy strikes by accident |
| Religion spikes right after it |
| The more dysfunctional a country is |
| The more people turn to faith just to function in it |
| Secular people are less happy than people of faith |
| But secular places are more safe |
| And safe citizens really are happier |
| Compared to where hardship’s nastier |
| So the faithful have happier faces |
| Than heathens in places that lack the basics |
| But a heathen living in a safe place can |
| Be better off than somebody praying in a wasteland |
| Which means the more miserable you are |
| The more religious you are overall, FUBAR |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Good things happen to bad people |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Bad things happen, bad things happen |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Good things happen to bad people |
| Any god who could change that |
| But chose not to, is evil |
| Whenever a devastating tragedy occurs |
| Our instinct is to look for the perpetrator first |
| «Who did that? |
| We’re gonna punish somebody |
| Whoever did it is about to get beaten bloody!» |
| But some events have no person behind them |
| People infer the perpetrator is divine then |
| A supernatural agent was testing your faith when |
| He sent those raging tsunami waves in |
| And that’s a sticky situation |
| How do you punish a supernatural agent? |
| Logistically quite difficult |
| It’s kinda tricky when the target is invisible |
| You can’t stay mad at god, that’s pointless |
| You’re probably better off tryin' to get anointed |
| And that’s why Mr. Almighty gets to claim |
| All the credit, and none of the blame |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Good things happen to bad people |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Bad things happen, bad things happen |
| Bad things happen to good people |
| Good things happen to bad people |
| Any god who could change that |
| But chose not to, is evil |