Do the Zoo

© 2020

Bowl of rice will do very nice thank you
and this can be my fee so test those tabs on me

Aint had much food and what I had didn’t do me much good
please choose me today - pay me tomorrow and we’ll fade away

And if we do the do and if we play ‘The Zoo’
please could my family have water too?
You see my children here, and that’s my woman’s fear
cos she’s got leprosy and they’re too young….
Too young to see.

Lost my left knee, to a mine in a ditch in Hutu country
Lost my best friend to the time-switch that barely missed me…
And its true I look thin, took six weeks in to get through your system
I aint announcing no scars, bouncin’ off cars when we try to stop them.

Ya test my blood good please, you won’t find no disease, and
you will plainly see, I am so healthy
and if this stuff kills me, I may die happy
cos your big company’s paying compensation money…
to people like me

Most of my people they’re forcing it down
Animal family, watch as they drown
Singular kingdom spinning around, they’re
spending their suffering
spending their suffering

I don’t have much to eat
And that stuff on my feet won’t go away
The pills you gave were such a treatment
But I’ll be doing fine in one more day

Now, your doctor tells me I’m too thin
to drink another green jar,
but there’s something creeping under my skin
Maybe burn it out with your cigar
Maybe, Maybe, Maybe Maybe…
Maybe burn it out with your cigar.