There is a Connection

THERE IS A CONNECTION
Lyrics Copyright 1994 Paul M. Elliott
Music Copyright 1994 Pat Walp

--Verse : (Introductory Premise)
Spontaneous human combustion. Lights under the sea.
Resinous masses falling from the sky.
Hollow mountains! UFOs and Omens, man.
Mass hypnosis, they say. Swamp gas, test firings.
You didn't see it, It didn't happen.
That's what they want you to believe.

--Verse : (Crazy People)
Lowell's canals, they were real!
He was getting way too close and look what they did to him.
You get too close, they call you a crackpot.
Call you a crap artist, call you crazy.
Make you believe it yourself, too.
Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make crazy.

--Refrain:
There is a connection. There is a connection.
There is a connection. There is a connection.
There is a connection. There is a connection.
THERE IS A CONNECTION. There is a connection.

[the singer can breathe in the last two measures]

--Verse : (God)
Bleeding statues and weeping Madonnas. This stuff is real, man.
Don't look for God in a church. Just opium there.
Gods in the skies, from the stars,
Underground, and in tortillas.
In the Church? No Way Jesu.
In the trash, Gods in the trash.

--Verse : (Technology)
One hundred mile carburetors, hundred year bulbs.
They keep it a secret. They say it aint so.
They found lightbulbs buried in the pyramids, man.
This stuff was NOT invented here.
Thomas Edison? That's what they want you to believe.
How else do you explain a fossilized sparkplug?

--Refrain

--Verse : (The Fossil Record)
Not just sparkplugs, man, footprints too.
Human and dinosaur walking side by side.
Mass extinction, HELL!
They came and took em home, it's the only way.
And what about those fossilized toads,
trapped underground, falling like rain?

--Verse : (It Fell From The Sky)
England, 1666 -- France, 1809
England, 1939 -- Massachusetts, 1953
Toads from the sky. What is the connection?
Got to be some kind of cosmic polynomial,
that threads through all these places and times.
'Cause time is a dimension too, and our star moves through it.

--refrain

--Verse : (Evolution)
They try to tell you about evolution, man?
Me, I can't believe that stuff.
Do the numbers, throw those DNA dice.
Play that RNA roulette, that's what they want you to believe.
Put all my chips on the "four to the ten-thousand" square.
And let it ride, let it ride.

--Verse : (More Evolution)
I'm not talking about "Let there be light" either, man
Ancient myths and legends, they get twisted.
We have forgotten, we have racial amnesia.
Why do you think they keep mushrooms illegal?
Evolution, creation, that's what they want you to believe.
We came from the stars, man. We came from the stars.

--Refrain

--Verse : (The Movies)
A wise man once said: "A man's gotta be some
kinda fool to believe we're all alone in THIS universe."
Important stuff gets hidden in the movies all the time.
Subliminal messages, secret codes.
Part of the cosmic subconscience.
Gods in the trash. Plate of shrimp.

--Verse : (More Crazy People)
Pink lasers, Morphogenetic fields.
I'm talking about monkeys, man!
Synchronicity and coincidence, two sides of the same coin.
Sheldrake was getting close, and look what they did to him.
Horselover Fat was getting way too close.
Look what they did to him. Fatal stroke, HELL!

[and it stops cold!]