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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