The Greener Pasture

from The Greener Pasture by Peter Oren

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lyrics

The greener pasture is also fenced in
The fuller trough has an asterisk
Rotate the herd every few days
Or is it every few years
We’ve got their tags on our ears
Standing in shit crying bovine tears
Won’t go hungry on the farmer’s grain

McDonald touched the bailiff’s bible with an invisible hand
He gave the judge a wink and sat in the witness stand
He said nothing’s out of sight nothing’s out of mind
Farm and factories of mine you’ll find
Abide by each law that applies
I’m god-fearing and lawful you can’t vilify me
I know the law I wrote it to a T
You can’t vilify me
I’m on the ALEC, I fund a PAC
I make ties to get mine from whatever candidate leads
I’m playing for keeps
But here I’m caught between memory and the yet to be I have yet to see a single thing to stop the world from spinning
Won’t go hungry on the farmer’s grain

Doe in the eyes
Dough in the mind
As you recline
Get stabbed from behind
Fenced in but fed
Select who survives
Stomach space for everything
Wars prisons refugees
Hey I can’t get away from this fate
Every day the promise of a difference gate
Hey I can’t get away from this fate
Every day the promise of a different gate

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from The Greener Pasture, released April 24, 2020

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