Reprogram The Gene

(album: An Hour Before It's Dark - 2022)

[I "Invincible"]

I don't want to be a boy
I don't want to be a girl
I want to be happy
I want to be clever
In no pain whatsoever

I want to be invincible
I want some peace of mind
I wanna share your thoughts
I wanna waste your time

I want to be Dr Frankenstein
Put my brain in a box
Full of LED light
You can have it for Christmas
Next year it'll be cheaper
And fourteen times as bright

I seen the future! It ain't orange, it's green
I been listening to Greta T
Begins with a letter C
The cure's coming at us
The cure is the disease

I don't wanna be food for the trees
I don't wanna fever
I don't wanna cough
As the planet simply shrugs us off
Don't wanna say goodbye to the earth and the sky
As the last of the animals
Curls up and dies
The rats and the roaches have no place to hide

We'll have the earth and the seas
To do with as we please
And all the strange human beings
Who we once used to be
Will be locked down
Knocked down
Unknown
Overgrown
But I'm gonna be
Invincible
Invincible

[II "Trouble-Free Life"]

You can turn up the gain on the pain
All the problems you really don't have
In this trouble-free life
In the trouble-free life

I've seen the future. It ain't orange
Listen to Greta T
Begins with a letter C
The spore's already on the breeze
We get what we deserve
The cure is the disease
The cure is the disease

Don't wanna fever
Don't wanna flood
I wanna be the thing you love
Don't wanna say goodbye
But I'm watching the time
The flowers and the bees
Vanishing beneath our feet
I don't want to be food for the trees

[III "A Cure For Us?"]

Locked down
Knocked down
Country in tiers
Shaking this one's gonna take years

Reprogram the gene
We're clever enough
But
Is there a cure for us?
Is there a cure for us?
Is there a cure for us?
Is there a cure for us?

I'm gonna be a friend of the earth
Let's all be friends of the earth
Let's all be friends