Neil Young : The Monsanto Years

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It's a new day for the planet

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It's a new day for the sun

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To shine down on what we're doin'

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It's a new day for love

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It's a bad day to do nothin'

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With so many people needin' our help

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To keep their lands away from the greedy

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Who only plunder for themselves

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All the people in the whole wide world

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Nobody matters but you and me

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When it comes to protecting our precious gift

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(It's a new day) It's the big scene from the movies

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(It's a big scene) Where the gunslinger rides away

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(It's a big scene) Outside a town past the needy

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(It's a big scene) And the rows of soldiers' graves

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(It's a new day) They fought the wars we thought we needed

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(It's a new day) They never asked us for a thing

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(It's a new day) And we believed in what we were doin'

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(It's a new day) While the earth is givin' way

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Of all the feelings in the whole wide world

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I can't begin to do or say

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Anything but protect our precious gift

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It's a new day for the planet

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To shine down on what we're doin'

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It's a new day for love It's a new day for love

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Wolf moon thank you for risin'

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Big sky I'm grateful for your parting clouds

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I know some hearts were broken

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Big crows still flying in your sky

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Herds of elk roam upon your meadows

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And your eagle soars across my eyes

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While you withstand the thoughtless plundering

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Wolf moon keep on shinin'

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Your days rolling by in timeless grace

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Your heart just keeps on beating

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Inside the beauty of this place

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Less fish swimmin' in your oceans

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Old ice floating in your seas

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Still you hold against the constant plundering

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Wolf moon thank you for risin'

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Big sky I'm grateful for your parting clouds

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Seeds of life your glowing fields of wheat

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Windy fields of barley at your feet

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While you endure the thoughtless plundering

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People want to hear songs of love

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People want to hear about love Don't talk about the Chevron millions going to the pipeline politicians People want to hear about love

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Don't talk about the beautiful fish in the deep blue sea, dyin'

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People want to hear about love

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People want to hear about love now

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If it will make them feel all right

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People want to hear about love

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People want to hear

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People want to hear about love Don't talk about the corporations hijacking all your rights People want to hear about love Don't mention world poverty talk about global love People want to hear about love People want to hear about love now If it will make them feel all right People want to hear about love People want to hear People want to hear about love Don't say to Citizens United has killed democracy People want to hear about love Don't say pesticides are causing autistic children People want to hear about love Don't say people don't vote because they don't trust the candidates People want to hear about love

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People want to hear

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People want to hear about love People want to hear about love People want to hear People want to hear about love People want to hear about love People want to hear People want to hear about love SOLO

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Plunderco got in money trouble had to break the law

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Had to balance the fine against the benefit to all

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Made a business decision to pay the fine and break the law

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Too big to fail, too rich for jail

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They can live with that so why don't we

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After all they're just like you and me

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They cast their votes and no one gets excited

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Because they are Citizens United

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In the streets of the capital corporations are taking control Democracy crushed at their feet Money flows free from the sky to those who come along Some way, somehow, we will prevail, but now How can we regain our freedom Lost by our own laws we must abide When will we take back our freedom To choose the way we live and die Main Street's boarded up now the whole town's asleep Mom 'n' pop got boarded up in a small business retreat Display windows and broken glass, not a car on the street Out at the big box store people lined up for more People working part-time at Walmart Never get the benefits for sure Might not make it to full time at Walmart Still standing by for the call to work Corporations have feelings, corporations have soul That's why they're like people just harder to control They don't want to fall, so when they fall, they fall on you Too big to fail, too rich for jail |

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| From the capital to the boarded-up main streets Big Business is there at every turn From the food we eat to the clothes we wear to the TV screen From the air we breathe to the fuel we burn

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If you don't like to rock Starbucks A coffee shop

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Well you better change your station 'cause that ain't all that we got

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Yeah, I want a cup of coffee but I don't want a GMO

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I like to start my day off without helping Monsanto

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Monsanto!

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Let our farmers grow what they want to grow

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From the fields of Nebraska to the banks of the Ohio The farmers won't be free to grow what they want to grow When corporate control takes over the American farm With fascist politicians and chemical giants walking arm in arm Monsanto! Let our farmers grow what they want to grow

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When the people of Vermont wanted to label food with GMOs So that they could find out what was in what the farmer grows Monsanto and Starbucks through the Grocery Manufacturers Alliance They sued the state of Vermont to overturn the people's will Monsanto! (And Starbucks) Mothers want to know what they feed their children

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Monsanto! Let our farmers grow what they want to grow

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A working man in Indiana travelled from farm to farm

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Cleanin' seeds and talkin' weather, worked 90 farms

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Got to know the farmers knew all of their kids

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Out in the country, that was '96

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His life was good and steady when seeds were cash (?)

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Next year the farmers were ready, the times were changing fast

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Supreme Court in session made a new law

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GMO seeds and patents had a fatal flaw

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Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas once worked for Monsanto

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Well I don't know you but I do know who I am |

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One summer morning just around dawn

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Four men with briefcases were on the working man's lawn

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We're gonna to sue you, take you to court

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For patent infringement, the criminals you support

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We're from Monsanto we own the seeds

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Give us the names of those farmers you seek

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You're gonna need big money to stand your ground

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Or we're gonna bury you, how does that sound?

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Working man lost all is his friends, his business too

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Now times have changed, things are picking up

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The wheels are rolling again on the old seed truck

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The cleaner's coming back have taken back the land

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They don't care the cost they're gonna take a stand

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Well I don't know you but I do know who I am

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Well I don't know you but I do know who I am

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No-one owns the sacred seed

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No man's law can change that

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Seeds have floated, birds have flown

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Seeds have travelled far from home

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Seeds are life it can't be owned

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Not even by Monsanto

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People must be free to grow

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Out of balance money grows

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Corporations take control

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Halls of justice got this wrong

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Life cannot be owned

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But me

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Wrong side of right, right side of wrong

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Halls of justice, rules of change

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Rolling by in front of me

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Human people feeling strange

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

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The moon is full and the seeds are sown while the farmer toils for Monsanto, Monsanto

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When these seeds rise they're ready for the pesticide

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And Round-up comes and brings the poison tide of Monsanto, Monsanto

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

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

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Every year he buys the patented seeds

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Poison-ready they're what the corporation needs, Monsanto

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

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

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

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With the farmer and his wife and children to complete the scene at Safeway, at Safeway

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

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Family seeds they used to save were gifts from God, not Monsanto, Monsanto

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Their own child grows ill near the poisoned crops

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While they work on, they can't find an easy way to stop, Monsanto, Monsanto

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

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

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The seeds of life are not what they once were

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Mother Nature and God don't own them anymore

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If I don't know what I'm doin'

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And all my big ideas fail

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Like build a dam against the water so the river dies

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Veins, the Earth's blood

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And all the world's dreams come true

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Like finding oil and shooting poison in the ground

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And if the melodies stay pretty

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And the songs are not too long

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Neil Young : The Monsanto Years
2015

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Wolf Moon

People Want To Hear About Love

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Workin' Man

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Monsanto Years

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Neil Young : The Monsanto Years 2015

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Wolf Moon

People Want To Hear About Love

Big Box

A Rock Star Bucks A Coffee Shop

Workin' Man

Rules Of Change

Monsanto Years

If I Don't Know

Neil Young : The Monsanto Years
2015