Slaughterhouse blues

It has been a life of squalor
Total misery and pain
Tortured and raped my babies kidnapped
Time and time again
Emotionally I am wasted
And as frightened as I can be
Waiting for the slaughter truck
To come and collect me

Out of this fucking factory
For once I see the sun
A blue sky up above me
I know my life is done
And you know I do feel healthy
And have no wish to die
But some supermarket wants my flesh
This is the reason why

Someone else unrelated
Can decide when I must die
So as you fucking humans
Can put me in your pie
Roast me in your oven
Boil me in your pot
You decide when I must die
And I don’t like that a lot

All our life is taken from us
Our milk, our skin, our meat
You make me work just like a slave
With lousy food to eat
Dirty rotten water
A house that smells like hell
And now I am off to the slaughterhouse
A place I hate as well

I have this vile revulsion
I have nightmares about this place
It is an abomination
Such a dark disgrace
A lot of real ill feeling
About the people there
The murdering scum forever numb
All terribly unaware
Of the kind of pain they put us through
Its abhorrent to me
To feel spurned by the farmers
I am sure you would agree

This is life the only life I ever
Can expect
And I am slave of the monster race
And their virus does infect
Me right down to my lowest thoughts
And right up to my brain
Human beings are repellant
And bloody insane
Any chance to harm us
They belt us with a broom
A shovel or perhaps a stick
And enter my womb
With arms and sticks such pressure
Such evil it’s not fair
No respect for female cows
It really drives us spare

And here we are at the abattoir
It’s a great big ghastly place
Very smelly you feel the blood
It’s straight in your face
It’s like a mist the taste is there
Of others animals who
Have been killed and their essence
Is now all over you
That’s the psychic messages
Then there’s the sounds we hear
The screams the guttural remonstrations
That induce each tear
We are not ones, for crying
But all that background sound
Gets into your heart strings
And your bloody nearly drowned

Then there’s the smell of dying
Can you imagine that
The juices and the fear itself
Each knows where they are at
They shit themselves a token left
Behind, that last discharge
The stench of death is everywhere
That’s when it’s very large
In your thought it’s happening
Hoisted on one leg
Up you go the gantry creaks
It’s as if you want to beg
Front legs they tie together
On the powerful chain
And there you hang and rock a bit
That’s when you know it’s all in vain

You remember all your children’s faces
You carried them after all
You saw them for a fleeting time
When they came to call
So you remember each of them
You remember their last cries
As they were hauled away from you
And especially the guys
Were then stomped on in front of you
You saw your babies die
You heard their bones crack painfully
And of course asked yourself why

And now it’s your time, your time
They hose down all the blood
Another cow was hanging where you are hanging
Where you are hanging and her blood
Rushed out like a torrent, all over the wall
All that life force all that qi
Released by that violent ghoul

A last growl for humanity
It comes out really rough
The chains are creaking all about
Already there’s enough
Fear around to shit yourself
But somehow you hold it in
Upside down I am upside down
And your
fucking world looks grim

I remember the love I felt for my
Calves if only fleetingly
Each one had that peculiar gait
And a massive love for me
It’s strange how a mother feels it
But you do you know it’s right
This is what I remembered
As he turned off my light

My eyes were rolling everywhere
Taking in the last
Moments of my existence
Now that my dye was cast
The ghoul was honing up his blade
I expected the worst
And he shoved the blade up under me
And my whole throat it just burst

The pain it was excruciating
The blood hot from my soul
Gushed out with tremendous force
Out of this great hole
Carrying flesh and sinew
The sound was really vile
I could hear myself now dying
And that’s hard to reconcile

The haughtiness of this monster
This human at my feet
Wielding a stainless weapon
One of the masked elite
A cockiness a brashness
Whistling away
And there I was spread eagled
In an advanced stage so they say

Opened to the elements
Still slightly aware
Most of my blood had left me
Most of it I did share
With the floor the walls the ceiling
The ghoul who stood below
He had caught some of it
When it started to flow

These ghouls they love destruction
The execution phase
You can see it on their faces
It’s with them all their days
The final stroke they love it
My last cough the last breath
These bastards they are joyous
That they have cause our death
the fusillade of spattering
The shambles of the soul
Exposing all my inner parts
For them truly their goal
Homicidal maniacs
Bloody thirsty deviants they
Are no different from the vultures
Who tear the flesh away

Behind the walls of sin
We hang our shadows always there
Our productive cycle lost and gone
In the filthy air
Once a feminist in form
Now a limbless lump
I bet they feel so manly
As they sexually dump

Our hearts our lungs our sexual organs
Into their bloodied bin
These surgeons out of hell itself
These rotten men of sin
Slicing through our precious skin
Into our inner soul
Ecstatic at our passing
Having taken the role

And soon no doubt you carnivores
Will choose me off some tray
In the supermarket where you live
Not far away
See my flesh my inner workings
Waiting there for you
To get your teeth and your fleshy tongue
To taste my flavour to

To fill your guts with what I was
To suck upon my bone
And feel the fat soon congregate
On your organs, to groan
Cow like as you climb the stairs
To reach your evening meal
Carrying the flesh of mine
Only you know how that does feel

Dead to the world the maggots rise
To chomp their way through me
And now you too must share each course
With the bloated grubs who be
Resident inside my flesh already waiting there
And now the heat will melt their fat
But you will not be aware

You will add the ketchup and spicy sauce
The gravy and the salt
And all of that will mask the tastes
You will not cry or halt
The digestion of my body
The maggots and my blood
My death is but a memory
Caught in the morning flood