Is This Art ? Lyrics - Levellers

They took me to the battlefield 

Saw the mushroom clouds 

Said 'I can see the colors 

Even when my head is bowed' 

And they showed me the destruction 

The slaughter a la carte 

And isn't nature wonderful 

But is this art? 

They took me to the hospital 

And pulled aside the sheet 

Said 'Look at that pulsating. 

Just listen to the beat' 

And they showed me the incision 

Then took away the heart 

And isn't nature wonderful 

But is this art? 

They took me to the scientist, 

Who opened up a phial 

He said 'This is only chicken pox 

And rhino bile' 

And they showed me what it did to mice 

They said 'This is just the start' 

And isn't nature wonderful 

But is this art? 

They took me to the tenement 

And kicked down the door 

They said:'Have you seen the copulation, 

Practiced by the poor 

We select the ones to breed 

Then we reject the part' 

And isn't nature wonderful 

But is this art?