GM Blues
Walking down that supermarket aisle,
stopped, took a fruit and veg for a while
Waxy apple, shiny and new
almost looked too new to be true
I never knew apples could grow arms and legs
but I guess you can't halt the wheels of progress
Well, I'm not a scientist, no Einstein
don't bother thinking most of the time
but it makes no sense to me, it seems to me,
to reinvent what's already free
Maybe it's just good business sense
Like peasants evicted from the land,
we're all being pushed by a giant hand
There aint much choice in what you eat
but that's no reason to admit defeat
By the end of 1999, every GM test site
in Northumberland had been destroyed
Well, they say GM will feed the world,
save all the starving boys and girls
Somehow they forgot to mention,
the profit of this modification:
Terminated genes will force third world farmers
to buy seeds from corporations, year after year
when currently, they don't need to buy any
Well, I leave you with this thought for now:
Fuck your scientific sacred cow
Cos it's already possible to make enough food
to feed all of them and me and you
The problem aint lack of food
It's lack of sharing