The Monsanto Years-Neil Young/Promise of the Real

[00:39.75]You never know what the future [00:42.33]Holds in the shallow soil of Monsanto, Monsanto [00:53.27]The moon is full and the seeds are sown [00:56.36]While the farmer toils for Monsanto, Monsanto [01:13.31]When these seeds rise they're ready for the pesticide [01:26.62]And Roundup comes and brings [01:31.72]The poison tide of Monsanto, Monsanto [01:43.61]The farmer knows he's got to grow [01:46.68]What he can sell, Monsanto, Monsanto [01:56.52]So he signs a deal for GMOs [02:00.30]That makes life hell with Monsanto, Monsanto [02:11.30]Every year he buys the patented seeds [02:24.52]Poison-ready they're what the corporation needs, Monsanto [02:50.81]When you shop for your daily bread [02:53.61]And walk the aisles of Safeway, Safeway [03:04.13]Find the package to catch your eye [03:07.03]That makes you smile at Safeway, at Safeway [03:18.39]Choose a picture of an old red barn on a field of green [03:30.45]With the farmer and his wife [03:32.82]And children to complete the scene at Safeway, at Safeway [03:47.33]Dreams of the past come flooding back to the farmer's mind, [03:53.57]His mother and father [04:00.56]Family seeds they used to save were gifts from God, [04:06.55]Not Monsanto, Monsanto [04:33.82]Don't care now what the Bible said so long ago [04:39.64]not Monsanto, Monsanto [04:46.50]Give us this day our daily bread [04:49.92]And let us not go with Monsanto, Monsanto [05:00.02]The seeds of life are not what they once were [05:12.48]Mother Nature and God don't own them anymore