No More Excuses

This is a (mostly) straight Copy/Paste from "HC" of Atheists-World.

Unfortunately I didn't read it whilst at home, so don't know what it sounds like thanks to my work's firewall blockin' MP3s. D'oh! I do LOVE the lyrics though, so will def be checkin' it out once I get me home this afternoon.

L8

New freethought song, "Demon Haunted World," written and performed by
John Annen, a member of Minnesota's freethought community (Humanists
of MN and MN Atheists) is available at this web site as an MP3:

http://www.atheistvoices.com/pages/annen/annen.mp3

Lyrics to "Demon-Haunted World" are below:

DEMON HAUNTED WORLD
© John Annen

Early man looked to the sky
To try to answer how and why.
That people live and people die
They didn't have a clue.

They didn't have electric lights
They watched the skies on starry nights
The constellations burned so bright
They gave them all a name.

They named them after things they knew.
Like lions, bears and hunters too.
Throughout the ages legends grew
Till people may have thought they were true.

The myth of gods and devils grew
Egyptian, Greek and Roman too.
The young ones thought the old ones knew.
But they didn't have a clue . . . not at all.

(Chorus)
It's a demon haunted world we live in
Use reason, do not give in.
Focus on realities
Not supernatural deities.

Remember what we're dealing with
Is superstition lies and myth
Taught to every boy and girl
In our demon haunted world
We're living in a demon haunted world.

Constantine was no one's fool
He used religion as a tool
Converted in a "miracle"
And gates to Europe's cities fell

They spread the godly empire
With inquisition, sword and fire.
Resistor's fates were often dire
Leaving free thought on the funeral pyre.

The empire spread beyond the sea
To the new land of liberty
The founding fathers there could see
That separation was the key.

Extremist leaders of the right
Still want to force a culture fight
They try to shove it down our craws
By forcing faith into our laws.

Turmoil in the Middle East
What solution hurts the least?
Faith seldom ever leads to peace
When dogs of war have been released.

Watch it on the evening news
Muslims fighting with the Jews.
Pacts for peace they all refuse.
No one wins and we all lose.

People of this bleeding Earth tell me
What's religion really worth?
Based on myth and far out tales
Please tell me why it still prevails.

Negotiations have been tried
Between religions that divide.
They will not budge on either side
They still don't have a clue . . . not at all

(Chorus)
It's a demon haunted world we live in
Use reason, do not give in.
Focus on realities
Not supernatural deities.

Remember what we're dealing with
Is superstition lies and myth
Taught to every boy and girl
In our demon haunted world.
We're living in a demon haunted world.