we are the animals who have lost our hair retained some of our teeth and gained a choice we ll chase food money and sex until satisfied and when its time to rest ask whats next we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals well its hard enough to retain control when our instincts are egging us on biologists and chemists reducing our souls to four letters and when we think about it we re like a masterpiece whose glimpsed the artist we are the machines carrying our various genes then discarded when the job is done we are the disciples who have lost our way kicked from our pedestal when darwin burnt the book  we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals well its hard enough to retain control when our instincts are egging us on biologists and chemists reducing our souls to four letters will genes replace genesis we re like a masterpiece whose glimpsed the artist we like to think we re at a special place the stars revolve around the human race but we re just mammals just primates like chimps or gorillas we see the hair on our face and look at another primate you and i we relate we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals we are all animals