In the rich mans shadow
\nAre the traders from Canton
\nWorking in the market
\nYes out there upon
\nHooks there hangs
\nLive animals
\nDogs and cats who try
\nTo get away hooked up to nails
\nThat keep them in the sky<\/p>\n
With contracts for the departmental stores
\nIn knightsbridge and Mayfair
\nThose are where the elitist wander
\nAnd clearly they don’t care
\nThey wear their smart designer clothes
\nAnd their designer shoes
\nAnd they buy into the cruelty
\nFor They have nothing to lose<\/p>\n
And stuck there on the market
\nThe stripper of the skin
\nJust a rusty sort of knife
\nAnd a rusty tin
\nAnd the animals are hung up
\nAnd whilst they are alive
\nTheir skin is ripped right off them
\nClearly they won’t survive<\/p>\n
But this is the price of fashion
\nPiece work its on price
\nThe fashionable London Departmental store
\nThey did roll the dice
\nThe poor man out in Canton
\nHas to do this kind of stuff
\nHas to murder stolen pet dogs
\nAlthough he has seen enough<\/p>\n
And the cameras call him a devil
\nBut The real devils are those
\nWho sit in Their walnut boardrooms
\nThinking that they pose
\nTrue respectability when of course
\nThey really are
\nThe low life in this equation
\nTheir heads beneath the bar<\/p>\n
A fat cigar a cognac
\nA snob who shakes the hands
\nOf other eminent tories
\nHe probably has his fans
\nBut nobody really knows him
\nAs the creator of the poor
\nSkinner in the Chinese market
\nWho nobody’s met before<\/p>\n
The animals rights films show us
\nThe marketeers how they
\nStrip fur off of the animals
\nIts the animals who pay
\nBut the bastards are store managers
\nAnd the
\nManagement who buy
\nInto all this cruelty
\nKeeping their precious margins high<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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