Prescribing Horror

Discarded, deformed Babies of the chemical age Mutated, some unborn Dying in their fetal cage On the day of the nativity in '56 Comes a child forsaken The first of a hundred thousand Cursed by a drug they'd taken Condemned to a life unkind As they suffered in silence The hell of Thalidomide All in the name of science A mother's ruin All for another's greed Prescribing horror And sorrow when they breed Miscarriage, disparage Live a life of anguish Midwives were taking lives So the child it would not languish Suffocating newborn daughters and sons For their malformations Given toxic poison That twisted a generation Condemned to a life unkind As they suffered in silence The hell of Thalidomide All in the name of science A mother's ruin All for another's greed Prescribing horror And sorrow when they breed First created in the past As an antidote for Sarin gas Created in camps of death What price a pound of flesh? Limbless, eyeless All organs displaced They made money hand over fist By selling this toxic waste Condemned to a life unkind As they suffered in silence The hell of Thalidomide All in the name of science A mother's ruin All for another's greed Prescribing horror And sorrow when they breed