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How dare you claim the right to make a healthy profit By patenting an enzyme and making millions off it Legal it may be, but can't you see your newfound wealth Comes at the expense of other people's health Chorus: Patenting parts of nature makes no sense Why should it be legal for them to make their millions Off the ingenuity of the mother earth Who owns the human genome? WE DO! Companies like those who sell cigarettes have as their daily fare Hurting people to make big bucks, and obviously, they don't care But Research in biotech began as a quest to help people Yet tragically like so much else in our society It has now been transformed into the quest for cash Leaving us with more rich corporations and less knowledge How dare you claim the credit for the creating that gene you took You created nothing! You merely thought of where to look Proteins designed and built by humans have yet to be seen Mix and match and get lucky is not what creation means Chorus SongtexteThis system of genetic patents bares a striking similarity To the ownership of land Which plays such a fundamental role in the vast Difference of wealth between the rich and the poor Who knows how far this will go if it is allowed to persist Will we see the emergence of a brand new class of genetically poor? The genes you're born with are the ones your whole life with There is no form of social mobility here Aus Songtexte Mania