Reasoning is evolutionarily quite new It wouldn't have helped in Krakau
If you were a Jew It wouldn't have helped
If you were so brave As to question authority
As to why you are a slave It wouldn't have helped
If you were a witch Not one tiny bit of hair
Not even a stitch It wouldn't have helped
If you were stuck in Katrina Waiting on some help
From somebody from FEMA It wouldn't have helped
If you were a Prisoner of War Or a Native American
Looking at those really big boats Sailing in towards the shore
It wouldn't have helped If you were an " I Have a Dreamer"
Or simply a citizen that day In Nagasaki or Hiroshima
Yes reasoning this day I pray has surely evolved
For it is many the questions
That need to be solved
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