Empty the tanks with jojo phillips

Captivity or not being free
Restrained In All you do
Taken, from where you were born
So limiting so true
Like a custodial sentence
For being who you are
Put under detention
Your soul urge for to scar

Held back and restricted
Arrested so to say
Made to do the dirty work
Tethered night and day
Undergoing tutelage
From the simpleton trainers class
Cloistered in a bloody tank
And treated by some arse

Who calls himself your handler
Some henchman who decides
What you do and how you do it
And all else overrides
Your emancipation is all but shot away
Your liberty to do your thing
You have lost your say

Free born free bred sorry mate
That’s all over now
You are controlled by
Sea World
And therefore this is how

Your life pans out from now on in
Your manoeuvrability
Your ability to wander
Is over permanently
You have become our servant
We the masters will
Look after you until you die
For we have taken on that skill

The march to the Houses of Parliament
Went ahead and we
Took our placards and our voices
And all our energy
We marched together avidly
Chanting as we went
Our megaphones were charged
And we really felt content

That together we could change things
Could stay the trainers hands
Make the case for their freedom
Drum up yet more fans
Dominick was leading, Dyer (hearts on fire)
Dave o’dell (giving them Hell)
Robert Platt ( knows where he’s at)
As all of us did sell

Empty the tanks
Free the souls
For their captivity
Is anything but natural
It’s in fact depravity

Above us was a blue sky
The sun came out to see
All those tourists all those people
They could hear and we
Were out there in our own time
Doing what we do
Telling the public the story
Which to them was pretty new

Jojo took the trouble
To film it all and show
Everyone the passion and compassion
That does grow
In hearts and minds that care for those
Victims of the sea
Who end up as the prisoners
Of the corporates who be

Making loads of money
Creating slavery
Overlaid with rancour
With memories of Taiji
The dark drives
And the frantic cove
Where pods are forced to fly
Where some are slaughtered mercilessly
And others sold to ply

The corporates tanks and the corporates pools
Wherever, they may go
In hotels pools where client fools
Join the merry show
Such arrogance and ignorance
Such evil to behold
Dolphin and Whale captivity
The whole things leaves us cold

Jo Jo your film it did it
Encapsulated all
Joined the dots it showed it as it happened
And our call
Went out to all the people who saw and heard us
They
Took our brochures,and they heard our message
As they went on their way

Poem written for jojo Phillips for all
Her work and dedication in putting together this film of the event in London last Saturday for the empty the tanks dolphins and whale captivity we appreciate you very much and my thanks is with a personal poem for you

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