Interpret:

Jello Biafra

Album:

The Sky Is Falling And I Want My Mommy

First the urine test - now this 
First the urine test - now this! 
Why do all the best technology advances 
Always wind up in the worst possible hands 


Through dna analysis 
We may one day conquer disease 
A "perfect" baby every time 
By mapping and manipulating people's genes 


Cosmetic surgery before you're born 
Know in advance what you'll die of 
Everyone is useful and the same 
Swimmers bred like horses for olympic teams 


Life insurance? be serious! 
You have to get your genes screened first 
Toxic chemicals? fumes at work? 
No sweat! get a gene transplant 


Otherwise you'll lose your job do 
You wanna wind up out in the streets? 
And raise your children in campgrounds and shelters? 
And beg to eat 


There's too many sharks in the gene pool 
Too many chewed up bodies on the shore 
Too many sharks in the gene pool 
Too many leftovers rotting all around us 


First the urine test - now this! 
Why do the best technological advances 
Keep winding up as... 


Uniform hybrid species 
For fresh-looking pest-proof food 
An apple can sit on the shelf for years 
When we irradiate the molecules 


But where did the nutrition go? 
And what's taken it's place? 
Slipshod tampering with science 
Out of control factory farm eugenics 


Slaughterhouses in lowa 
Filled with tumor-infested cows 
Failed experiments hidden 'til sold 
To your local school lunch program 


Grade D, but edible 
Our food, our life, our attitude 
Suffocating in what we refuse to recycle 
Time bombs fester in every town 


Billions of dollars spent every year 
Searching for a cure for cancer 
Why not spend that money instead 
To wipe out pollution that causes the cancer 


There's too many sharks in the gene pool 
Too many screw-ups washing on shore 
Too many sharks in the gene pool 
Too many preventable accidents among us 


Meryl Streep... where are you? 


Where did american know how go 
Why do japanese build better stereos 
Is it 'cos our best minds can't get a job 
Except when they help make toys for the Pentagon 


Germ warfare, more bombs 
Germ warfare, more bombs 
Our whole economy's based on fear and death 
How long can we get away with this? 


And we live here 


Instead of better health we get a.i.d.s. 
Instead of nourishment we get steroids 
The most popular selections at celebrity sperm banks 
Are sports heroes 


Gap widens between the haves and the have-nots 
Rich and powerful breed only with themselves 
We all know what happens when too much of this happens 
The offspring just ain't real bright 


How else can you explain 
The erosion of talent and the vision thing 
To the point where the best that they can come up with 
For our future role models and leaders 


Are vicious blind machines 
Like Albert Gore and Dan Quayle 
Why do the best solutions and advances 
Get thrown away in the worst possible hands 


There's too many sharks in the gene pool 
Too many carcasses washing on shore 
Too many sharks in the gene pool 
Avalanche of toxic guts all around us 


We're incompetent as human beings 
Even worse at playing God 


Wrong people 
Right place 
Ruling class 
Gets the only pass 
To board the ark 
For outer space 
In 2001 
What about this place?