Evolution
by Korn

Album: Untitled (2007)
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  • I diggin' with my fingertips
    I'm gripping at the ground I stand upon
    I'm searching for fragile bones
    (Evolution)

    I'm never gonna be refined
    Keep trying but I won't assimilate
    Should we have come far in time
    (Watch the bow break)

    And I'm sorry that I don't believe
    By the evidence that I see
    That there's any hope left for me
    It's evolution
    Just evolution

    And I, I do not dare deny
    The basic beast inside
    It's right here, it's controlling my mind
    And why do I deserve to die?
    I'm dominated by
    This animal that's locked up inside

    Close up to get a real good view
    I'm betting that the species will survive
    Pull tight, I'm getting inside you
    (Evolution)

    And when were gonna find these bones
    They're gonna wanna keep them in a jar
    The number one virus caused by
    (Procreation)

    And the planet may go astray
    In a million years I say
    Those motherfuckers were all deranged
    It's evolution
    Just evolution

    And I, I do not dare deny
    The basic beast inside
    It's right here, it's controlling my mind
    And why do I deserve to die?
    I'm dominated by
    This animal that's locked up inside

    Take a look around (take a look around, take a look around, take a look around)
    Nothing much has changed (take a look around, take a look around, take a look around)
    Take a look around (take a look around, take a look around, take a look around)
    Nothing much has changed (take a look around, take a look around, take a look around)

    Take a look around
    Take a look around
    Take a look around (nothing much has changed)
    Take a look around

    Take a look around (nothing much has changed)
    Take a look around
    Take a look around (nothing much has changed)
    Take a look around

    I, I do not dare deny
    The basic beast inside
    It's right here, it's controlling my mind
    And why do I deserve to die?
    I'm dominated by
    This animal that's locked up inside

    Why? (Why, why, why)
    Why do I deserve to die? (Do I deserve to die? why, why) Writer/s: Graham Edwards, James Shaffer, Jonathan Davis, Lauren Christy, Reginald Arvizu, Scott Spock, Zachary Baird
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Unison Rights S.L., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 6

  • Tim from Northfield, MnEvolution isn't a concept. It's a process. It's been proven too many times in multiple forms of science and basic observations to be theory. Concepts are ideas based on hypothesis and have yet to be proven.

    As for the song, Humans are indeed adapting to an environment where they are less reliant on self sustainment and have become socially lazy or just purposefully ignorant because they aren't getting the negative feedback to prevent a lax in schooling or even using simple common sense. People aren't thinking as much as they used to because we have machines that can do it faster and our laws have become a joke in most cases where people do things they shouldn't because they know they can get away with it.
  • Francesca from Bath, United Kingdomstop watching tv! it destroys the mind
  • Azalea from Hot Springs, ArThe song is about how we've evovled from being inventive and earth-friendly to being laid-back and carefree, and slowly destroying the economy.
  • Joe from Carver, MaActually, if you look at the theory of evolution by the process of gradualism, people don't use the human brain to its full extent. if you look up all of the info, a lot of studies suggest that the average I.Q of people is going down annually. for some reason, varying among people, they aren't using all of the intelligence they have, whether its dementia, a hereditary mental disorder, or just people like George bush. due to this, parts of the human brain in the thought process are becoming vestigial and will surely shrink and vanish theoretically. that is the point given in this song.
  • Taylor from Pueblo, CoThis song might have a real good point,but then again all of KoRn's songs have a real good point.
  • Jenna from Nova Scotia, Canadaits obviously about how the whole world is de-evolving into a somewhat primitive state.It IS happening.You'll all see.
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