OILED ANIMALS

Lyrics

Do not attempt To capture them The oiled animals Flushed from their dens Slick with sainthood Glossed and sheen Annointed in our greed Bend any further Any closer Hairs in your nostrils Singe and burn No need You get the taste In your mouth Just from vapours In the air Waking a painful, cold shock Like smelling salts - still No better off Save for the suffering Save for the suffering Extinction event is coming A festering grudge Buried deep In the bosom of the natural world We've been a narcissistic and petulant child Stare at our reflection Till nothings left Every living thing a pet Manicured and neutered Bent to our will Stretched to capacity We dominate Domesticate Eradicate Procreate Dominate Domesticate Eradicate Procreate Lay down your arms Lay down your heads Take no more and Leave nothing left Just lay still On the earth Until it's time To lay in it I'll sit still in the dirt Until I become of it I'd rather be Moss on a stone Or the vapors in the air A lowly maggot Fly reborn To be anything but human We are hell on earth Ringing death's knell An arrogance that stains the dirt To make life out of rot Eating death to feed the chain Or as scum in a pond Needs only light to sustain To live life without waste To face death without pain To a life without pain To a death without waste "I wish that I could photosynthesize, to make food out of light and water, to make medicines and give them away for free, to do the work of the world and for the world, while standing silently in the sun, but I can't. I'm not an autotrophe, a producer, but a heterotrophe. I'm an animal. I'm destined by my biology to be a consumer. I must take from the world in order to live."