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Story behind the song
We were asked to write a song on the subject of vivisection by a scientist formerly experimenting on animals who is now an advocate of animal rights and welfare.
I was informed of a heartbreaking story about two monkeys caged side by side in a laboratory. When one of the monkeys was taken away for surgery and did not return, the remaining monkey was so distressed that he ripped out chunks of his fur and was inconsolable.
Vivisection is intolerable violence towards animals, surgery without consent.
I wanted to convey a conversation between a dog and a monkey in a laboratory. I imagined them chattering between themselves in their cages, each dreaming of what they would do when they got out... never knowing that they would never be released alive-this is the tragic reality for millions of animals experimented on over and over again in laboratories around the world.
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Lyrics
'Stop That It Hurts'
When I get out alive I'm gonna climb in trees
N' swing from branches like an eagle flies
When I get out alive...
When I get out alive, gonna run like the wind
N' show my master that I love him
When I get out alive...
When I get out alive I'm gonna eat my food
Without a stomach tube
Oh when I get out alive...
Oh stop that it hurts
You're squeezing me
That thing that you did
It's hurting me
Oh stop it I want my body back
Oh help me...
I watch through the bars
They gave me these scars
They hit me I cry
And I still cry...
Can't help if I bite, I live fear to fight
I long to know peace of eternal light
And I've tried being nice and I've tried being good
I'd just close my eyes and die if I could...
Oh stop that it hurts
You're squeezing me
That thing that you did
It's hurting me,
Oh stop it I want my body back
Oh help me...
Millions of animals die in laboratories every year - too many to count, they are found throughout the world known only by numbers, they are more wretched than humans can ever be, for they don't even have the ability to understand their fate. Their only release is death.
'Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character'
Oh stop that it hurts
You're squeezing me
That thing that you did
It's hurting me,
Oh stop it I want my body back
Oh help me...
Oh stop that it hurts
You're squeezing me
That thing that you do
It's killing me
Oh stop it I want my mum and dad
Oh help me,
Oh... Why don't you help me?
Oh you tame us you break us, you shame us you hate us
You do things unseen with our pain in between
And all for the blood of a corporate greed
And we bleed and we bleed and we bleed
We bleed unseen, oh, we bleed unseen
Oh, unseen, yeah we bleed unseen
Yeah why don't you help us help us help us help us help us?
Yeah we bleed unseen...
Maria Daines/Paul Killington
2006
Quote - 'Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character' George Bernard Shaw (narrated by Paul Killington)