take care

Madeleine Peyroux

Food is good if it s organically grown
Without pesticides, plastic wrap, or Styrofoam
Growth hormones or horrific conditions
for hard working humans or the cows or the chickens
And if it s from far away, 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 all right when sustainably made
But find me a seam that s truly fair trade
Meaning well paid, unionized, grown-up souls
Fulfilling desires, values and goals

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

Now, living s okay if you can really survive
Without time to enjoy nor relations to thrive
If you wanna be selfish, cutthroat, and 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

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