[Verse 1] There was no garden waiting, No peaceful paradise, Life crawled out of the darkness And learned to pay the price. With tooth and claw and hunger, Each creature fought for breath— The prize for adaptation Was postponing death. [Pre-Chorus] No mercy in the mechanism, No justice in the rules— Just endless reproduction And nature’s ruthless tools. [Chorus] Natural selection sucks— Survival isn’t kind. The strong consume the fragile, The slow get left behind. Through billions of generations, Life struggled, starved, and struck. It made this world—but let’s be honest: Natural selection sucks. [Verse 2] The lion takes the antelope, The spider traps the fly, The eagle tears the rabbit While its babies wait nearby. Parasites invade the body, Viruses mutate— Nature doesn’t love us, And nature doesn’t hate. [Pre-Chorus] No guiding hand protects them, No judge declares what’s fair— Just genes that keep surviving Because they’re still there. [Chorus] Natural selection sucks— Survival isn’t kind. The strong consume the fragile, The weak are left behind. Through billions of generations, Life struggled, starved, and struck. It made us what we are today— But natural selection sucks. [Verse 3] Almost every species That ever lived is gone— Branches on the tree of life That could not carry on. No funeral for the trilobite, No tombstone for its name— Extinction closed the curtain On nearly every frame. [Bridge] If this is your creation, God, Why build it out of pain? Why must one life be broken So another life remains? Could eyes not learn to see Without the terror of the chase? Could beauty not have blossomed Without this brutal race? Yet from the bones of vanished worlds, From struggle, chance, and time, Came consciousness and music, Compassion, love, and rhyme. We cannot change the road behind Or how all life began— But we can choose a kinder path Than nature ever planned. [Final Chorus] Natural selection sucks— Survival isn’t kind. But we don’t have to imitate The process left behind. Through billions of generations, Life struggled, starved, and struck. Evolution made us capable Of saying, “This still sucks.” [Outro] Nature gave us tooth and claw, But also hearts and minds. Selection may be merciless— We don’t have to be in kind.
