Look at the Elephant - Dan Bull

I’d like to tell you

Some uncomfortable truths

This will now happen

Within a few years the elephants are going to die

But they’re less important to our ecosystem than a fly (Why?)

All of our actions are ultimately selfish

Even when we help the helpless

We’re thinking what we can get out of this

No need for an apology

It’s just biology, because we’re stronger in a colony

And honestly, I can’t debate the fact my claims’ll be debated

I can’t overstate the fact I’m underrated

I can’t stand or understand the fact I’m hated

I tried being understated 'til I realised it was overrated

Your tablet phone was made by modern day slave labour

The world today’s arranged to make use chase paper

To the grave, spend spend spend, but make sure you save for later

Haters are going hate but maybe what they’re saying will save you

Insane or saviour?

Am I a liar, pariah, messiah

Or a normal guy with the desire to inquire?

I’m adding fuel to fire, I’ll draw the ire

Either side of the dividing line like a binary multiplier

We’re all bullied at school, but never did it ourselves

That doesn’t add up, you were a bully without knowing as well

You’re guilty of stuff you’d have others thrown in a cell for

So look close to home before telling us what we’re going to hell for

Look at the elephant

Look at the fucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the motherfucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the fucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the motherfucking elephant

Now, human rights are universal

'Cause they mean nothing unless given the worst of us

Regardless of what people do

Murderers are people too

Who legally you’re equal to

There’s no line between good and evil, dude

There’s only actions and intentions

A result of chemical reactions and events

And any ethical infractions that you care to add that are an invention

But don’t pretend that that’s an invitation to act a twat

'Cause you’re ingrained with empathy, advanced behaviour

Saviour

But you have more empathy for people of your own race

For those whose skin tone fits that of your own face

The capacity’s in all of us for genocide

It’s best to face the demon inside than try to run and hide

Nazis were people too

If you’d have been in their circumstances

The certain chance is you would be one too

Paedophiles are people too, that’s their sexuality

It’s not a choice, they’re not criminals unless they breach legality

And when the age of consent changes internationally

Ranging from eight to eighteen then it’s a massive leap

You may feel uncomfortable, but it’s the truth actually

Like the fact that you’re a walking talking poo factory

Look at the elephant

Look at the fucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the motherfucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the fucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the motherfucking elephant

Within a few years the elephants are going to die

But they’re less important to our ecosystem than a fly

A transexual is genetically their birth gender

It’s burnt into the embers of their cells like the Earth’s centre

We can pretend, but in the end, eventually

Identity’s inconsequential, conscious beings are nonessential

Disagree?

Eeach piece of meat you eat was borne of suffering

Most reasons for eating it recede to nothing when you look at it

And similarly with abortion, a significant portion

Of the arguments can apply to infants that are already born

If you say you refuse to go back to coat hangers

Then the NRA could claim the same: «we won’t go back to daggers!»

You may say it’s none of my business as a cishet Brit

But I’m not one for indifference, I’m at odds with it

It is what it is regardless of whose gob’s emitting it

So if you’ve got a problem with listening

It’s probably the cognitive dissonance kicking in

Some of your most deep and strong beliefs are wrong, mine too

Read along to the lyrics of this song, you’ll probably see the ones

To err is human, to forgive divine

To redefine what we believe is right is to see behind the scenes

And really feel alive

To be reminded of the blood, the guts, the bones and the meat inside

I really tried but this feeling can’t even be described

It’s too revealing, I can’t be surprised we try to keep it hiding

At times fear takes over, so like Peter, we deny

But the beauty within reason seems it cannot be defied

Everyone will compromise their morals for enough money

And farts will always, always be funny

The elephant

Look at the fucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the motherfucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the fucking elephant

The elephant

Look at the motherfucking elephant

You are going to die

No, really.

Listen to me

You

Are

Going

To die

Now I don’t care about advances in cryogenics

Or the infinite universe theory

You

Are

Going

To die