STRANGE ANIMAL (WIP. Voice is a bit flat.)

[Instrumental intro] [Chorus] [Layered Vocals] [Sung, melodic but exhausted] Keep it pushing That's the only thing we're told We put fire in our bellies Now we're running from the smoke Keep it pushing Can we stop a little while? Once, we reached up for the heavens Now we're praying to get by. [Verse 1] [conversational flow] [Background melody swells] [dynamic Performance] [Playful and slick] Used to hear it in the bushes get the kids and grab your club, Now it's sitting in a swivel chair, deciding who to cut, Someone that I never met decides he needs a little more, Just a couple clicks and half the street can't live here anymore. Humans killed off half the things that used to hunt us, then spent the extra time inventing better ways to war with one another. Now the things that used to hunt us wear a tie and work above us, Profits take a tumble, they can starve and fuckin' cuff us. Empty out your cupboards, hunt a bargain like a wildebeest, Supermarket prairies hunting party feeling squeezed. Oh, the things that you would do to make sure that your children eat, Fluorescent moon above us grab the minced and cheap MSG and dinner meat drag the little ones through checkout, scan the bits they need grab whatever’s cheapest while the scanner beeps a couple ration tins of beans (That'll get a week), stack of instant meals, bag of chicken pieces Little fingers gripping plastic like they helped you drag a beast in.. (What's your problem girl, you mad that you got shit to eat?) [Chorus] [Layered Vocals] [Sung, melodic but exhausted] Keep it pushing That's the only thing we're told We put fire in our bellies Now we're running from the smoke Keep it pushing Can we stop a little while? Once we reached up for the heavens Now we're praying to get by. [Verse 2] [Playful and slick] [Slower] [Background melody swells] [dynamic Performance] Now we're one strange animal, Learned to count the cattle then we turned them into capital. A motherfuckin' magic trick, the ground gets bought and sold. Were we thinking bout a mortgage where the woolly mammoth roamed? (nope) Neanderthal scheming for the planet's gold, born trait to have it all Every time we get a little we find a little more we're owed. [Melodic] Back before we even knew what we were reaching for With our hands around anything to keeps us warm When our fires were the things we gathered for we watched the whole god damn world become flammable. [Playful and slick] Otzi, gin and tonic with some chronic on his glacier, frozen solid, think we lost it(yup!) Sharks up in their business suits, fruits of our labor have us go and chase our missing loot. [Playful and slick] Shake the tree, hit the snooze, rent is due, shovel in your prison food little Pigeon coup! small apartment got you sleeping in the living room Born to roam now all the wilderness is planted in your window view! for those listless youths, I know the problem's hard right. I wish I could tell you everything would be alright, leave our spears by the pelts while we're singing by the torchlight. [Chorus] [Layered Vocals] Keep it pushing That's the only thing we're told We put fire in our bellies Now we're running from the smoke Keep it pushing Can we stop a little while? Once we reached up for the heavens Now we're praying to get by. [Verse 3] [dynamic Performance] Ohh my cave got a deadbolt but I'm the one who's locked inside it my life is tied in fine print scraping by to keep the lights lit, we found the way to make a fire and then a way to make it private, Now the ones who stack your timber can't afford to sit beside it. Turned a rock into a rocket, take our weapons to the market! Now we fill the sky with bullets to decide who gets to harvest.. Funny little animal, we put a price on being hungry, Built a fence around our rivers, sold their water back for money. [Closer to the listener] Keep on telling empty stomachs “give it time,” I hear em rumbling,.. All the hands that built your houses getting tired of holding nothing,.. Now you're checking on that deadbolt every time you hear somebody.. You put fire in our bellies, what the fuck'd you think was coming?.. [Final chorus, stripped back beat, tired but defiant] [Chorus] [Layered Vocals] [Sung, melodic but exhausted] Keep it pushing That's the only thing we're told We put fire in our bellies Still we leave each other cold Keep it pushing Can we stop a little while? Once we reached up for the heavens Like we'd change once we arrived.