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We'd Turn It into a Bomb
The King Blues
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"I am a misanthrope" Alfred Nobel
There was a man called Joseph Wilbrand in 1863
Who invented a yellow dye
That was meant to be used
For colouring sheets
It was a formula that
He labelled as TNT
But it was just 40 years on
That we turned it into a bomb
If we invented all that was right
We'd find a way to make it wrong
If we invented a cure for cancer
We'd turn it into a bomb
And not a day goes by where
I'm not amazed
At the stupidity of the human race
The famous Wright Brothers
Overcame man's desire to fly
To be like the birds
They envisioned it with their mind's eye
But it only took us
Another 40 years time
To figure out how to use one
To drop an atomic bomb
If we invented all that was right
We'd find a way to make it wrong
If we invented a cure for cancer
We'd turn it into a bomb
And not a day goes by where
I'm not amazed
At the stupidity of the human race
It's like we can't be trusted
Our power gets corrupted
Yet still, we carry on this behaviour
As if we ain't at the mercy of nature
I think of what we could be it seems a tragedy
Come the day the land grabber's quit compassionately
The day the arms dealers agree an amnesty
Why does such a world seem insanity
If we invented all that was right
We'd find a way to make it wrong
If we invented a cure for cancer
We'd turn it into a bomb
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