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52. If You Were

from Ecowrap by My Rap Name is Alex

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a lot of moles don't have eyes but if they did
they could look deep into you and dig up what you hid
your fools gold, your old soul,
you're giving up controll to some genocidal aaaa....
choo
You. Yes you. Are not a fish
But if you were a fish I can tell you what you probably would wish
not to be swimming in plastic, growing tumors making you spastic
to continue a neverending cycle of life formerly so fantastic

it's like 1-2-3 for Solidarity
it's like A-B- see what we're doing to the trees
if you were a non human would someone advocate for you?
you have to power to advocate. Great. So what you gonna do?

you're probably not a cow but if you were
we wouldn't care about your rights you'd probably never get heard
you'd live among miles and miles of your own species
standing in piles and piles of each others feces
eating monotanous food, spending monotanous days
subjected to hundreds of abuses in thousands of ways
on your way someday to your corporate sanctioned murder
all for the sake of a "happy" McHamburger
staring sideeyed at the humans hoping their compassion will kick in
and the only thing to be grateful for is not being a chicken

it's like 1-2-3 for Solidarity
it's like A-B- see what we're doing to the trees
if you were a non human would someone advocate for you?
you have to power to advocate. Great. So what you gonna do?

I am not a tree, but if I was a tree
you would hack me all to bits and then blow your nose on me
I tell ya, I'd get no respect
by the time you get around to protecting me, nothing left to protect
so I couldn't do for you what I used to do
I care that you need air but yeah I do too
killin me for the cows, killin cows for the dough
and the wheat flour all has round-up in it now thanks to Monsan...
Oh. Almost said the M word. My bad.
But as you can see life for trees is gettin pretty sad

it's like 1-2-3 for Solidarity
it's like A-B- see what we're doing to the trees
if you were a non human would someone advocate for you?
you have to power to advocate. Great. So what you gonna do?

You're not a planktonic organism, but as you probably have guessed
a microorganism's life's not faring much better than the rest
we're gonna have a decades long debate about consumption in the west
while at every scale life on Earth is put to the test
And even when an advocate dares to do their best
THEY get criminalized and labeled a terrorist?
For what? For documenting actual depravity, torture & terror
She just took a picture of abuse and somehow SHE's in error?
Gimmie a break. For pigs' sake. Our morality's at stake
We've got mamoth changes to make. So what's it gonna take?

if you were a non human would someone advocate for you?
you have to power to advocate. Great. So what you gonna do?
if you were a non human would someone advocate for you?
you have to power to advocate. Great. So what you gonna do?
What you gonna do? What you gonna do?

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from Ecowrap, released May 1, 2018
music & lyrics by My Rap Name is Alex

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My Rap Name is Alex Buffalo, New York

My Rap Name is Alex. I'm a story teller from Buffalo, New York in North America. These days I tend to focus on stories having to do with how we can treat ourselves, the beings around us, and our environment much better than we have been.

For more info on me please check out my Patreon link below.
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