Like Animals Lyrics

Why do we treat animals like animals

Animals treat us so very well

The devoted ways they serve us

And protect us when we're nervous

Oh, they really don't deserve us

All we give them is hell

Why do we treat animals like animals

How can people be so inhumane

Cows and chickens work to feed us

Dogs and horses show they need us

And though cats don't always heed us

Their affection is plain

What do we do

We neglect them

We do nothing to protect them

We reject them, don't expect them

To complain

We ignore them or we beat them

When we're hungry then we eat them

It's appalling how we treat them

It's insane

Like animals

We humiliate and murder and confine them

We create their wretched status

Then we use it to malign them

When will we stop treating them like animals

Is the human race entirely mad

When you dress in suede or leather

Or some fancy fur or feather

Do you stop and wonder whether

For a fad

You have killed some beast or other

And you're wearing someone's brother

Or perhaps it's someone's mother

In which you're clad

Like animals

Well, it's true we do not live in a zoo

But man is an animal too

Leslie Bricusse