Planned Obsolescence Lyrics - 10,000 Maniacs

Science is truth for life 

Watch religion fall obsolete 

Science will be truth for life 

Technology as nature 

Science truth for life 

In Fortran tongue the answer 

With wealth and prominence, man so near perfection 

Possession, it's an absence of interim 

Secure no demurrer 

Defense against divine, defense against his true 

Image human conflict number five 

Discovery, dissolved all illusion 

Mystery, destroyed with conclusion 

And illusion never restored 

Any modern man can see that religion is obsolete 

Piety obsolete ritual obsolete 

Martyrdom, obsolete 

Prophetic vision, obsolete 

Mysticism, obsolete 

Commitment, obsolete 

Sacrament, obsolete 

Revelation, obsolete