Your Money of Your Life

Your Money or Your Life

They took our cattle from meadows in bloom
And encased them in cages to meet their doom
The medicinal plants were kept away
They were pumped full of drugs, grain and hay

They denounced natural herbs that belonged to us all
And patented synthetics and raked in the haul
They suppressed the pains and killed the bugs
And we danced to the tune of the wonder drugs

The planet is organic and so are we
Our medicines and food should grow naturally
Just think if we had studied all Nature's compounds
Man could have healed in leaps and bounds

So what have we learnt from the past sixty years
False promises of cures still bombard willing ears
Now they're taking our food and patenting the crop
And paying off dissenters with one single drop

They finance departments to blind us with science
While the big grow bigger into vast corporate giants
Who will surely stop them is their anyone to doubt
The promises and inducements so eagerly dished out

And so life itself will belong to the few
Who have patented the genome, if we only knew
What lies in store, we might think twice
Before we let commerce own the secrets of life.