| Subculture Killing the tradition The parallel is obvious, for those with eyes to see For all the same suffering, all the same misery The segregation of priveleged from those considered tools The State's miseducation that makes all citizens fools Taught that dogs and cats should be treated well as pets While in the cold laboratories same animals meet their deaths With painful experimentation for more products to consume A cheap way to make profit sends animals to their doom Consider factory farms with animals crammed inside With no access to daylight, from our eyes they hide No real animal welfare, 'cos this increases the costs Treated as a commodity for profit and for loss Consider circus animals or those caged in a zoo Slaves for your entertainment, they suffer to please you In solitude they stay in their prison cage for months Abused when they are trained to perform unnatural stunts Consider the tradition of killing just for fun Where birds are shot out of the sky for the pleasure of one A dead corpse in a showcase for one to see and boast No matter pointless killing is murder to the most With these killing traditions we've gone out of our heads All these killing traditions promote a culture of death BACK |