Sharks In The Gene Pool Lyrics

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

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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?