Idiots Are Taking Over Tab por Nofx

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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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, 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
 
[Verse 2]
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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, 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
 
[Interlude]
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[Bridge]
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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 
 
[Verse 3]
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Biggest solutions. 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
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And prosperity via simpleton culture
 
[Outro]
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The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over
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The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over
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The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over
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The idiots are taking over,   the idiots are taking over