Take Care

Food is good if it's organically grown, without pesticides

Plastic wrap, or styrofoam

Growth hormones or horrific conditions

For hard working humans, or cows, or chickens

And if it's from far away, or hydrogenated

Farmed or wild, but unregulated

Refined, streamlined, bottled or canned

Don't try it, don't buy it from your fellow man

Perhaps you should abstain

This is for your health

I know it sounds insane

But please take care of yourself

No, I don't recommend a morose existence

Life is an art, and perspective needs distance

But you gotta get lean and scrappy

And fight if you're gonna begin to get living right

Water is great if it's clear and clean

Free of heavy metals and polyethylene

Filtered, fresh, locally sourced

And it doesn't catch fire in your sink, of course

Clothing's alright when sustainably made

But find me a seam that's truly fair trade

Meaning well paid, unionized, grown-up souls

Fulfilling desires, values, goals

Perhaps you should abstain

This is for your health

I know it sounds insane

But please take care of yourself

I don't recommend a morose existence

Life is an art, and perspective needs distance

But you gotta get lean and scrappy and fight

If you're gonna begin to get living right

Now living's okay if you can really survive

Without time to enjoy it, or relations to thrive, and

If you wanna be selfish, cutthroat, mean

Join the elite, take the cash, be obscene!

No wonder I'm always lost in a daze

Escaping in movies, and games, and malaise

I wonder if anything ever will change

What strange choices we've made

Perhaps you should abstain

This is for your health

I know it sounds insane

But please take care of yourself

Now, I don't recommend a morose existence

Life is an art, and perspective needs distance

But you gotta get lean and scrappy and fight

If you're gonna begin to get living right

Now let's have a party

I'll bring food and water

And we can eat, and laugh, and be merry, and talk about, uh

Where we're gonna live, and, uh, uh, how we're gonna live, and

Oh, whatever you want, you know, have some fun, take care of ourselves

Hi, mom