Veteran rocker Neil Young, one of the founders of Farm Aid, is releasing a new album called “The Monsanto Years,” that makes any number of silly claims about biotechnology, using Monsanto as a metaphor for the entire plant breeding industry.
The only track so far released from the album is called “Rock Starbucks,” and has these rather incoherent lyrics set to a simple tune.
If you don’t like to rock Starbucks, a coffee shop
Well, you better change your station ’cause that ain’t all that we got
Yeah, I want a cup of coffee, but I don’t want a GMO
I like to start my day off without helping Monsanto
Monsanto
Let our farmers grow
What they want to grow
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The nice thing about lyrics as poetry is that you can use literary compression to express a number of feelings and ideas in the fewest possible words. In this lyric, however, none of the sentiments are actually true: the whole song is intentionally misleading.
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