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Todd Snider - In The Beginning lyrics
In the beginning, man wondered to himself: 
 Why, oh why are we here?
 And yet, with each asking of this question 
 The answer would become even less clear
 Overwhelmed by fear, distraction took it's place 
 And so it was, in the world's first shelter
 That we began the human race 
 The human race to fill up more and more empty space
 Oh, how we loved, the human race
 Until one day this one guy said to this other guy, he said:
 Hey, have you seen that guy over there? 
 He's got more than everybody else has got
 To me, that don't seem fair
 Well, the second guy agreed with the first guy
 Everybody else did too
 Til they all got so worked up, they figured 
 There was something they just had to do:
 Divide his things up among each other
 After they killed him of course
 They could see no real good reason not to just 
 Take what they wanted by force
 When they found him he said: 
 Hey, wait a minute fellas, I wouldn't kill me just now
 You can see that I've got more than any of you
 Have ever got, wouldn't you first at least like to know how?
 And with that, he had their attention
 And with that, he went on loud and clear, he said:
 You all know how long we've all wondered 
 Why, oh why are we here?
 Well today I'm gonna tell ya all about it
 I'm gonna teach ya about sufferin' and blissTodd Snider - In The Beginning - http://motolyrics.com/todd-snider/in-the-beginning-lyrics.html
 I'm gonna teach y'all a little bout Heaven and Hell 
 And the God that gave me all this
 God gave me this because I'm humble 
 And he can do the same for you too
 But if you're seekin' his love and affection 
 What you're doin' is the last thing I'd do
 He sends killers to hellfire, both here and eternally 
 The good live forever in a place called Heaven
 God told me this personally 
Who you gonna trust if you can't trust me?
 So unless you want suffering and heartache 
 Unless you want trouble and fear 
 You better find some kinda way to humble yourself
 May I suggest helpin' me clean up around here?
 'Course I could pay ya a little bit a money
 But more importantly God would see 
 And if He sees you workin' humbly 
 Some day he may give you what he's given me
 Well the crowd just didn't know what to do with that
 Nor could they prove what he said wasn't true
 And since he had what everyone else thought they wanted 
 It seemed like the thing to do
 And with that we rolled into the future
 And ain't it a son of a bitch
 To think that we would still need religion 
 To keep the poor from killin' the rich?
Who are you gonna trust if you don't trust me?













