CALE SAMPSON - The Human Genome Project lyrics

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Our physical traits are influenced by genetics

That make us vulnerable to disease like diabetics

Or multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and cancer

Apparently this project will provide these answers

A molecular blueprint of homosapiens

That will remodel the world with it's information

I wonder how this data will be interpreted

And who really has control over dispersing it

In case you haven't known, it's the human genome

Twenty-three chromosomes capable of being cloned

Thirty thousand genes encoded by DNA

Sequenced along three billion bases atomically

Government departments of energy and health

Helped research expand by providing their wealth

To form a worldwide scientific collaboration

Against secrets of life and all mystification

It's essential the public becomes aware

Revolutionary changes will occur everywhere

Time to choose what is or not ethical

The Human Genome Project's got me sceptical

In Nineteen Fifty-Three, Francis Crick

And James Watson discovered the double helix

In Deoxyribonucleic acidics

With thoughts that were completely anti religious

They wanted to prove that there was no God

That ideas of vitalism should be viewed in disregard

'Cause anything divine was now impossible

And primarily explained as being biological

Intelligence levels, plus aggressive behavior

Biasedly defined by those the results favored

Inequalities grew as power maintained

For dominant social systems who manipulate our brains

To believe what they're saying is the actual truth

Just because an expert claims there's factual proof

That's how morality can become distorted

When a few people decide for the world what is important

Corporations like Celera Genomics

Privately sell info to make profits

To pharmaceutical firms in search of products

That will improve business and company economics

Testing on non-human organisms

Lab mice and fruit flies for polymorphisms

As biotechnology invents new creatures

Mutated animals with deformative features

Functioning organs are grown inside them

And transplanted to people on the verge of dying

Through nuclear shifting of somatic matter

Cloning a sheep named Dolly was successfully mastered

Possibilities cause implications

Like embryo pre-natal manipulations

So parents can make their ideal child

A therapeutically-enhanced altered profile

But who will gain access to our personal records

Maybe job employers or insurance inspectors

Blatantly invading all rights to privacy

Subjectively forming a cultural hierarchy

Entirely based on eugenic foundations

Past history's of inhumane discriminations

Like nazi racism, attempted termination

Of populations through genocide elimination