video by trillion
bike footage filmed by Darcy Gladwin
better video version here:
https://vimeo.com/72403310
LYRICS
you're one of the few privileged
to avoid hunger and plunder the food pyramid
you're healthy - but that's where the flattery ends
because your cheap cheap habits support battery hens
You want cheap cheap? Something has to pay the price
I'm laying days and nights - with no labour rights
you take away my life with a cheap devilish feed
never breed or be freed thanks to a deep level of greed -
I'm weak knee'd - my legs suffer and ache
as I make cheap cheap eggs for your muffins and cake
you buy sweet frappes and try meat pates
and eat cheap cheap eggs in high street cafes
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dirty dozen x 2
i want my life, let me outside let me live in the light.
when the text on the egg carton says:
Cage Eggs, that's the dirty dirty dozen.
There's no chicken yard, and the chickens are all sick and scarred,
that's the dirty dozen eggs
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these shackles are engagement rings you purchased us
surface rust on cages -- sores sting and burst with puss
GMO corn is worthless - it doesn't work for us
we eat worms and grubs -- from the earth and dust
but it's worth it -- just, you got your cheap cheap eggs
for your perfect crust and your sweet sweet spreads
we get nothing extra for higher rates of delivery
we're shy inmates, we die in crates or from misery
cheap cheap - discreet breach under fowl conditions
help change it, let's reach a hundred thousand listens
remember 'cheap cheap' lengthens our collective screams
and strengthens dreams of breeding electric pecking egg machines
egg machines
we are not egg machines
been in lock down since I was a young chick
never shake a tail feather or swing a drum stick
I keep rocking steady, smoothing my comb over
beak docking blues, I'm a confused cloned plover
jail bird - we used to be free - shoot the breeze
be introduced to cute roosters and roost in a trees
we'll never get used to these bars - the dorm and pecking hall
the new world pecking order - fauna wrecking ball
- I'm dreaming of scratching in the hedgerow
but I'm leaving in a body bag -- I hatched in death row
you said so as you fed slow on pesto and French dough
and ordered your eggs over easy down at the Metro
well, your eggs bene imprisoned Henny Penny
the slave driver gets a penny but she isn't getting any
she'll never know motherhood or the wonder of spring
with a family of her own huddled under her wing
your money is a curse or heaven sent -- you can reverse any dent
if you any sense about where your penny's spent
your purse can end it -- your choice is their first amendment
you can free Henny Penny from this irreverence with your benevolence
credits
released December 25, 2022
music & rap: Trillion
singers: Andy Gibson & Flip Grater
bouzouki: Mike Considine
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