A song about the effects that chemicals and food additives are having on the children of the modern world.
lyrics
The day you arrived on the scene
we plugged you into the feeding machine.
Injected with dead debris,
you fed on a mix of sugar and powdered protein
Now why wont you sit still?
A diet of white and sweet,
acquired a taste for cola and fries and cheese
and red was your favourite thing,
951, 635 and 150c.
Now why wont you sit still?
Well the doctors arrived after getting the call.
Some teacher decided your little child had so much wrong.
Prescribed some words as long as your arm
designed to hide the side effects of all
the chemicals before,
the chemicals before.
Nobody saw the obvious clues.
Nobody laid out options for you.
Nobody knew what vitamins do.
They're just trying to make you
buy more chemicals.
Nobody dare defy the belief
that only a drug can cure a disease.
Nobody cared what you could achieve.
They're just trying to make you
buy more chemicals.
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