Tough Shit Mickey

Mother Nature smiles and cracks a new days dawn

Most people on the earth are sleeping comfortably and warm

Out in the fields and pastures, it's another new day too

One without the war and hatred that is known by me and you

A shriek disturbs the peacefulness; the cat's just killed a mouse

The mother says with feeling as she looks out from the house

It's breakfast time, the clock strikes nine, ham, bacon, one egg or two?

What a shame about that mouse, what's for tea tonight, lamb stew?

Well, there's things to do, so the family divides in separate ways

Father works to earn the keep, he's a butcher and well paid

The daughters go to riding school mother washes up the crap

One son plays with soldiers; the other aggravates the cat

Back out in the fields, a different story's taking place

Foxes cower with their cubs to escape the human race

Rabbits run for life, deer take cover in the trees

The mother sighs with disbelief, then prepares the meat

Think what you're doing the systems set to ruin

The life not the profit we've got to fucking stop it

Because before too long there will nothing left alive

Not a creature on the land or sea, a bird in the sky

They'll be shot, harpooned, eaten and hunted too much

Vivisected by the clever men who prove that there's no such

Thing as a fair world with live and let live

The royal family go hunting what an example to give

To the people they lead and that don't include me

I've seen enough pain and torture of those who can't speak

So I'm gonna speak for them in an all out attack

And if someone tries to whip me, then I will fucking whip them back

Because I have had enough of this madness in those theatres of hell

Enough of them hounding the fox to the kill

Of baby seals being clubbed, their mothers cut up

They satisfy their greed, their wealth's built on blood

Of their slaughterhouse haunting the back of the mind

The gas chamber of the farm life, the end of the line

It's a shame about that mouse!