Cycles from Aila by Sweet Goose

Let me fill you in on the holes you are missing
in your heart and in your brain
You need to reevaluate the way you’re thinking about the food chain
Cause it's insane
how many innocent lives that are born each day
And stolen from their mothers' udder,
can you imagine your child being taken away?

Well, it's unnatural you see
 its not the way these things should be
Human beings have become a parasite,
a virus, causing an outbreak of zoonotic disease
Well if you please will you take this sole advice,
try to live without harm and never take any lives
And don’t abuse the food you choose
let your whole body become a garden of paradise

Well it's a cruel world that we’re living in
but you get to choose if it’s something you’re complicit in
And if you think that you’ll be missing out on minerals and vitamins
Then maybe it's compassion you're deficient in
You say it makes your bone grow, stronger each day
but where do you think the milk that you drink is from?
Do you think that I’m always in this state, ready to lactate

Well if ignorance is bliss,
you must be living in the darkest parts upon the edge of the abyss
Now it’s time to open your eyes wide,
step into the light and then realise
That all the things you see are made of connective energy,
The sun, the moon, the sea, the stars, the sky.
There’s no separation from you and I
So whilst we are here and alive

Won’t you stand beside us
And together we can learn to live without violence
Cause everything that ends will come back once again
Because this life, this life it moves in cycles,
This life it moves in cycles

Somehow the sacred divinity of the cow
has been re-written in the pages of history and now
The only fragments left of our femininity
are from the years and years we’ve been used for our fertility

But now I hear there is a revolution at hand,
to reclaim the soil and re-wild the land
If your economy is based upon supply and demand
you’ve got to demand to find another way to be kind
to every animal and every sentient being
who should be living in the wild and roaming free
If only you could find the time to radicalise your mind and you will find
That everything that you will ever need can be found
if you bury your roots inside the ground
Then the seed of an idea can be sown
and eventually, become a garden overgrown with life
There’s no difference between you and I

Won’t you stand beside us
and together we can learn to live without violence
Cause everything that ends
will come back once again
because this life, this life it moves in cycles,
this life it moves in cycles

We are all the same, oh yes we are, oh yes we are

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