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Animals are clothing, animals are food
Animals allowed to live only if they're cute
And only in the kinda way where we dictate and they obey
That's how they're seen today

Animals commodified live out their lives in cages
Genetically they're modified, matured at younger ages
Profit is the bottom line, that's how it's been for ages
The cost of life is getting pretty low

THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Animals have feelings too and you know it's the truth

Animals cannot consent to testing out our drugs
The effects of which are rarely the same they are for us
This practise is compulsory, for our health they will bleed
The illness that we have is further fed

There should not be a word for living beings with a cost
Yet livestock is a word that's used by too many of us
Why the hells should we decided which creatures live and which ones die?
Every creature has the right to life

THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Animals have feelings too and you know it's the truth

You scrimp and you save and you work all day
You earn a tiny fraction of the money made
But you've gotta keep on working, yeah you've gotta get paid
That's how it is today

The bosses in the office, the grim reaper in disguise
Spend their hours counting profits while the death tolls rise
Propaganda and deception, a smokescreen for their lies
That's just the game they play

Separate and segregate, create a lower class
Perpetuate the rhetoric that what is our's is our's
National identity don't really make much sense to me
But that's how they keep control

Problems of another country aren't our's to get involved
Unless there's opportunities for minerals and gold
Labour is preferable when workforce is disposable
The cost of life is getting pretty low

THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Humans are animals too, open up the borders
THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Humans are animals too, open up the borders
THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ANIMAL ABUSE
Humans are animals too, open up the borders

We're all in cages
We're all in cages
We're all in cages
We're all in cages
WE'RE ALL IN CAGES!
WE'RE ALL IN CAGES!
WE'RE ALL IN CAGES!
Lock by economics, revolution is the key

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from Songs From The Before Times​.​.​.​& Some More, released May 6, 2021

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