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Pass the puffer
04:09
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One bite can paralyse and kill a human
But dolphins get a buzz off the neurotoxin
Are they purposely experimenting
Then going off to look at their reflection?
Pass the puffer
Before the seas get rougher
Only half their brain’s asleep
Otherwise they couldn’t breathe
A pod passes down its beliefs
To the next generation
Making a chew toy from spiky lethal creatures
Animals with big brains are often buzz-seekers
Hanging around with their noses at the surface
Or leaping out the water playing with surfers
Pass the puffer
Before the seas get rougher
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Fed to the tigers
04:29
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In the cold light of day he was fed to the tigers.
Perfectly healthy (and utterly adorable)
The zoo said it had no choice, but to kill poor Marius
Shot through the head, he died instantly.
He will take up space for more genetically valuable giraffes
He is of no use to us and he costs us money
We can’t exceed our carrying capacity
Overpopulation is a problem you know
Marius just two years old
He was not yet fully grown
In the wild he’d use his height
To spot hungry beasts from far away
The scientific director got numerous death threats
But he said serious scientists can’t be led by emotion.
From the imperfect options, they chose the best
200 kilograms of meat from an animal that had lived two good years
Much better than what they usually feed to carnivores in zoos like this
Should length of life be privileged over quality?
A humane death is better than ending in a circus
Marius just two years old
He was not yet fully grown
In the wild he’d use his height
To spot hungry beasts from far away
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Cyborg (Broken Animal)
03:47
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Are you a real animal?
Picking yourself up off the floor
With your bionic claw
Technology can bring us back to nature
A thousand augmented flowers will bloom
Reverse engineering what should take millennia
Is no lazy shortcut, just another tool
I’m picking up a signal, picking up a signal
My brain is now wired differently
I didn’t pop a pill or flick a switch
But I am tuning in now
See the cyborgs all around
The offspring of necessity
Our motherboards are so corrupted
We are all breaking down
Broken animal let me put you back together
Broken animal let me fix you
Who’s sending me the signal?
This fuzzy signal is making me think differently
Who took away my health and starved me of breath?
Have I fallen out of love?
See the cyborgs all around
The offspring of necessity
Our motherboards are so corrupted
We are all breaking down
This dragonfly is no mere natural insect
Its neurons controlled by pulses of light
A robot insect army could soon go into battle
Armed with electro technology
Rebuilding broken people on a broken planet
Our souls are broken too - is there a fix for them?
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Sweet Kiss of Death
04:44
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You took a great pride in your calling
With you on my back, I ran like the wind
Just standing in they never gave us a chance
Maybe all the excitement did you in
Photographed mid-jump we were out in front
My hooves brushed the fence as we stormed ahead
But then the reaper paid a visit
I felt your dead weight before we crossed the line
They called me the sweet kiss of death
But I carried you home
I don’t know why your heart failed
But you’d been under pressure to lose weight
You strove and sweated, denied yourself water
Was it all too much? You never complained
Laid to rest in your racing silks
You were ready to ride again
When the reaper paid a visit
I felt your dead weight before we crossed the line
They called me the sweet kiss of death
But I carried you home
Frank flew up to the sky on my back
Forever riding the Sweet Kiss of Death
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A nuclear disaster took all the humans away
Down from the mountains the boars made a foray
Into the dangers of the big exclusion zone
Almost indestructible, this place became their home
What can we do now they’ve moved in?
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
Fierce and wild, but domesticated, too
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
Porcine interlopers took over our land
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
With their white moustaches cocky and free
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
They haven’t mutated, but a fearsome foe they are
Fighting the humans off until they brought in armed assassins
Looking back down from the windy mountainside
The matriarch longs to get back to their quiet life
What can we do now they’ve moved in?
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
Fierce and wild but domesticated, too
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
Porcine interlopers took over our land
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
With their white moustaches cocky and free
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs
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Joe Peacock Birmingham, UK
I'm a prolific singer-songwriter from Birmingham - a genre-hopping storyteller, whose music has been compared to Bowie, Blur, Costello and many others. Mostly, my songs tell stories that I find interesting and thought provoking. My music has all been recorded at home so far and all money from the digital sales of my music go into paying producers/mixing & mastering engineers. ... more
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