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X-Ray Spex – Genetic Engineering | Track profile | Dork

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Germ Free Adolescents
Genetic Engineering

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Genetic Engineering

From Germ Free Adolescents

Track 1

2:49

Alternative Music Rock

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About This Track

"Genetic Engineering" is a track by X-Ray Spex, from the album Germ Free Adolescents. The track is 2:49 long. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Genetic Engineering

Genetic engineering
Could create the perfect race
(Could) create an unknown life-force
That could us exterminate

Introducing worker clone
As our subordinated slave
His expertise proficiency
Will surely dig our grave

It's so very tempting
Will biologists resist
When he becomes the creator
Will he let us exist

Bionic man is jumping
Through the television set
He's about to materialise
And guess who's coming next

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Track details

From Germ Free Adolescents

2:49

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Album

Germ Free Adolescents

10th November 1978

Track number

1

1Art - I - Ficial
3:25
2Obsessed with You
2:31
3Warrior in Woolworths
3:08
4Let's Submerge
3:27
5I Can't Do Anything
2:58
6Identity
2:26
—Germfree Adolescence
3:15
—I Am a Poseur
2:33
—Identity
2:26
—Art-I-Ficial
3:25
—Genetic Engineering
2:49
—Warrior in Woolworths
3:08
1Genetic Engineering
2:49
2I Live off You
2:09
3I Am a Poseur
2:33
4Germfree Adolescence
3:15
5Plastic Bag
4:54
6The Day the World Turned Day - Glo
2:53
7Age (Bonus Track)
2:39
8Highly Inflammable (Bonus Track)
2:35

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