Shelter Song Lyrics

Artist: Shelter
Song: Civilized Man
Album: Mantra

There's a war in the day no peace at night
There's blood on the hands of man yet we don't symathize
Meateater kills the cows they just depersonalize to justify
Their own lust as the helpless die
And it's ironic how we cry for world peace
But the violence won't decrease unless our murders cease
So understand in the slaughter-house who's the beast
And I demand that the innocent be released

And I've tried the best I can
Well I've tried to understand
Civilized man, so-called civilized man
And I've tried the best I can
But who can understand
Civilized man, so called, so called, so called

Guilt free so-called morality fallacy
The 4 foods group just western medicine quackery
(meat would be) $35 a pound but our taxes subsidize
As 35 million starve as we gormandize
The grains that could feed the world go to their industry
To fatten up the catle for death and I protest
Rain forests once here kiss goodbye the biosphere ozone nightmare
Just see the people don't even care!

And I've tried the best I can
Well I've tried to understand
Civilized man, so-called civilized man
And I've tried the best I can
But who can understand
Civilized man, so called, so called, so called

Guilt free we overlooked the blood and brutality
And the TV propaganda covers heinous reality
A plea to the people of this land to do what they can...
in hopes, in hopes of a civilized man And I've tried the best I can
Well I've tried to understand
Civilized man, so-called civilized man
And I've tried the best I can
But who can understand
Try to understand, try to understand, try to understand!

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Posted/Updated: 7/27/03