Now the monkey swings by the end of his tail
As he flies from tree to tree
Well there may be monkey in some of you guys
But there ainât no monkey in me
And there ainât no bugs on me
There ainât no bugs on me
There may be bugs on some of you mugs
But there ainât no bugs on me
Yeah, there ainât no bugs on me
Just on you liberal freaksâ¦
Who says science and religion will never harmonize?
When science explains religion then weâll have a compromise
But not the specific magical claims
Iâm talkinâ about the relevant psychological states
Like, for instance, why is Darwinism such a toxic
Proposition for conservative religions
But not for liberal religions like Episcopalianism
See, itâs not the religion, itâs the conservatism
So whatâs the difference between conservatives and liberals?
Moral psychologists have a definition thatâs simple
Liberals like myself are just higher in a stable
Personality trait known as âopenness to experienceâ
We think noveltyâs great â new people, new places,
New types of food, new lovers whenever someone
Inspires the mood, and it might seem like this life is a dream
But novelty is the place where parasites breed
Which gives us a delicious little testable prediction
For the scientific method to consider
Namely that openness to experience and liberalism
Should be influenced by micro-organisms
In your environment, and does the evidence agree?
Man, you wouldnât believe how much your political leanings
Can be predicted by the local threat of infectious disease
So all my social conservatives sing!
There ainât no bugs on me
There ainât no bugs on me
There may be bugs on some of you mugs
But there ainât no bugs on me
So letâs celebrate every universal of humanness
Like the fact that xenophobia is an immune defense
Where the brain gets a signal from the lymphatic system
That says: âBe afraid of anything thatâs dramatically differentâ
And fundamentalism is the same kinda fear
Dangerous bugs, dangerous people, and Darwinâs dangerous idea
But itâs not about intellect â well, if you wanna get picky
Openness correlates with intelligence moderately
But I have creationist cousins, and theyâre as smart as whips
And they think Iâm retarded for being a Darwinist
And maybe I am retarded, maybe my liberalism
Is like a form of autism, like my brain is disconnected
From traditional ethics, âcause Iâm always disrespecting
Apparently arbitrary religious messages
Like when a devout jew or muslim says the blood of a menstruating
Woman is unclean, what the hell does that mean?
Is it somehow different than if she cuts her finger when sheâs cookinâ
And bleeds? How is it immoral if it doesnât hurt someone?
I just donât get it, to me blood is blood
And ladies, Iâm down to prove it when itâs time to cut a rug
If youâre bleeding and horny, just give me a warning and weâll
Put a towel down to save the sheets and go âtil three in the morning
Ugh, no wonder conservatives hate godless liberals
So all my Tory brethren sing along, and it goesâ¦
There ainât no bugs on me
There ainât no bugs on me
There may be bugs on some of you mugs
But there ainât no bugs on me
Yeah, the modern liberal is a recent mutant
A novelty-seeking novelty of evolution
But donât you start feelinâ too much like the X-Men
âCause I can test your openness with targeted questions
Like for instance â imagine your family dog dies
And you all decide to memorialize the poor old guy
By eating him stir-fried, are you on the wrong side
Of the moral equation, and if not one is harmed, why?
As a committed liberal I can see both sides
But everyone has a bit of a conservative bias
âCause those who donât get naturally deselected
Like for instance, pregnant women are measurably
More xenophobic in their first trimester
âCause the fetus gives them an immuno-compromised system
So next time you listen to Nick Griffin or Glenn Beck
And you get vexed, like âfuck this little hate-monger insect! â
Just think of it as an immune system imbalance
Like a pregnant woman who pukes every time she eats salads
And if you wanna see the end of oppression in Palestine
Or homophobia in Uganda, or female genital mutilation
In the Sudan, well then maybe the answer
Is water sanitation and a vaccination agenda
So letâs all just sing along to the words of wisdom
Itâs the germ theory of conservatism
There ainât no bugs on me
There ainât no bugs on me
There may be bugs on some of you mugs
But there ainât no bugs on me