Chumbawamba - Tearing Up Zoo lyrics
[Chumbawamba - Tearing Up Zoo lyrics]
Through the turnstile, concrete jungle
Sterile habitat of iron
Symbol of brutality like supermarkets
Missile silos
Man puts up more barriers, creates his world
Denies another animal, unwilling captive
Mirrors how the captors live
Prisoner, imprisoner
It's only the cage sides makes us different
(reading from the book and
Tearing of the book)
'Man's genius is a mind with which to reason
And he has the power to draw out
The full potential of specific elements when
You consider the many millions of animals
Upon the earth at any
Time, the priviledge of human company
Is enjoyed by very
Very few of them one place
Where wild animals meet with human beings is
In the zoo there is a
Tremendous bonding between zoo
Animals and their
Keepers and though some animals
Are indeed contented simply to be fed
And have their billets cleaned, others
And especially the mammals, depend a great
Deal upon their keeper's company
And respond with great intelligence when they
Are treated with intelligence and affection'
And the spectacle will always have control
As it keeps us all struggling alone
Providing little boxes for us all
Demanding that we never ask for more
And we all sit back and drug away the pain
In a world that keeps us passive and tame
Isolated we will never realize
How we're spectators in their paradise
Whilst we're stuck inside the
Ghetto we create
With distractions there to keep
Us all content
These fences are promises and lies
Lets take the blindfold from our eyes
Sterile habitat of iron
Symbol of brutality like supermarkets
Missile silos
Man puts up more barriers, creates his world
Denies another animal, unwilling captive
Mirrors how the captors live
Prisoner, imprisoner
It's only the cage sides makes us different
(reading from the book and
Tearing of the book)
'Man's genius is a mind with which to reason
And he has the power to draw out
The full potential of specific elements when
You consider the many millions of animals
Upon the earth at any
Time, the priviledge of human company
Is enjoyed by very
Very few of them one place
Where wild animals meet with human beings is
In the zoo there is a
Tremendous bonding between zoo
Animals and their
Keepers and though some animals
Are indeed contented simply to be fed
And have their billets cleaned, others
And especially the mammals, depend a great
Deal upon their keeper's company
And respond with great intelligence when they
Are treated with intelligence and affection'
And the spectacle will always have control
As it keeps us all struggling alone
Providing little boxes for us all
Demanding that we never ask for more
And we all sit back and drug away the pain
In a world that keeps us passive and tame
Isolated we will never realize
How we're spectators in their paradise
Whilst we're stuck inside the
Ghetto we create
With distractions there to keep
Us all content
These fences are promises and lies
Lets take the blindfold from our eyes