Name: Measure of a Man
Duration: P00H02M22S
Description: from the album The Human Conditional

Measure of a Man

from American Boy - 50 Years of Protest by Bill White

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from the album The Human Conditional

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He turned away from the tree
to feast upon the flesh of beasts
Thrown down from the outer clouds
into the gristle

chorus
What is the measure of a man
Is he a soft machine for eating beasts
Or is he a dainty meal for the beasts
What is the measure of a man

Drinking from a cemetary sewer
why wont you let the dead rest in peace
Intelligent people are fewer and fewer
but there are more and more police

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Children fall from fairground rides
orangatangs wear human hides
women dress in bloody rags
of skin and fins and fur

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your gunny filled with human skulls
you creepers of the night
youll find your inner darkness
with a lantern of artificial light

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from American Boy - 50 Years of Protest, released May 26, 2018

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