They took me to the battlefield
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Saw the mushroom clouds
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Said 'I can see the colours
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Even when my head is bowed'
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And they showed me the destruction
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The slaughter a la carte
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And isn't nature wonderful
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But is this art?
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They took me to the hospital
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And pulled aside the sheet
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Said 'Look at that pulsating.
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Just listen to the beat'
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And they showed me the incision
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Then took away the heart
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And isn't nature wonderful
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But is this art?
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They took me to the scientist,
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Who opened up a phial
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He said 'This is only chicken pox
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And rhino bile'
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And they showed me what it did to mice
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They said 'This is just the start'
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And isn't nature wonderful
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But is this art?
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They took me to the tenement
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And kicked down the door
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They said:'Have you seen the copulation,
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Practised by the poor
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We select the ones to breed
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Then we reject the part'
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And isn't nature wonderful
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But is this art?
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Is This Art ?
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| The Levellers |
