The Monsanto Years - Neil Young/Promise of the Real

You never know what the future holds in the shallow soil of Monsanto Monsanto

The moon is full and the seeds are sown

While the farmer toils for Monsanto Monsanto

When these seeds rise they're ready for the pesticide

And roundup comes and brings the poison tide of Monsanto Monsanto

The farmer knows he's got to grow what he can sell Monsanto Monsanto

So he signs a deal for GMOs that makes life hell with Monsanto Monsanto

Every year he buys the patented seeds

Poison - ready they're what the corporation needs Monsanto

When you shop for your daily bread and walk the aisles of Safeway Safeway

Find the package to catch your eye that makes you smile at Safeway at Safeway

Choose a picture of an old red barn on a field of green

With the farmer and his wife and children

To complete the scene at Safeway at Safeway

Dreams of the past come flooding back to the farmer's mind his mother and father

Family seeds they used to save were gifts from god not Monsanto Monsanto

Don't care now what the bible said so long ago not Monsanto Monsanto

Give us this day our daily bread and let us not go with Monsanto Monsanto

The seeds of life are not what they once were

Mother nature and god don't own them anymore