FREEDOM!!!
JUDGE
As far as we can see, you've had a normal upbringing in a happy, caring family. Your parents gave you a great deal of love and affection. You've had a good education and, on the whole, you've been given every chance in life to get on, but ?? have simply squandered it! Well, young woman, what do you have to say for yourself?
CHILD
I just want to be free!!!
JUDGE
Free? Of course you're free! It's a free country, and you can thank to your elders who fought in the last war for that! You have freedom of speach, freedom of expression, freedom of vote, religious freedom, womens lib, gay lib,...my dear girl, what more freedom could you possibly want? Well young woman, what do you have to say for yourself?
CHILD
Oh yes - I'm free! I'm free all right.......
I'm free to be slave of a system riddled and rotten to core with corruption, pollution, injustice and exploatation!!!!
I'm free to be pumped full of useless and warped information labelled truth by the blind and bewildered so-colled leaders who cheat in the name of education!!!! Oh yes, I'm free to be brainwashed by T.V. and intimidating advertisers propaganda to have every ounce of initiative and creativity drained and replaced with tunnel-vision and neatly packed lies!!!!
Oh yes, I'm free to work for the rest of my days in a dark smelly factory, full of frustrated people doing mindless routines, for next to no pay, and if you're very lucky a bleedin' gold watch when ready to die!!!!!
I just want freedom to live!
I just want freedom to be happy!
I just want freedom to love!
I just want freedom to be me!
But I don't know why I'm in misery, And I don't know who is really me, And I don't know where I'm going to
And I don't know what I'm gonna do......
.........But I've gotta be free!!!
Oh yes, I'm gonna be free to be me to be free to be me to be free to be me to be free! (crying...)
For freedom my old man crawled through ditches and barbed wire and bodies and blew out the brains of some poor bastard who he never even knew!!!
For freedom I've marched across London and sat in old buildings and shouted at rallies, I've been arrested for nothing, I've jumped off tall buildings, and nearly died of starvation!!!
For freedom I've drunk till I'm stupid, I've smoked myself silly, I've sniffed glue and snoret up cocaine and jacked up with morhine and woke up sweating in
a room full of nightmares and tried to remember my name!!!
For freedom, you promised me heaven in three easy lessons; eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow is nowhere, but you brought me to tears and now I've cried myself empty, so here I sit with my finger on the trigger looking for freedom to die!!!
But I just want freedom to live!
I just want freedom to be happy! I just want freedom to love!
I just want freedom to be me!
I just want freedom to live! (...and murder beasts their flesh to chew!) I just want freedom to be happy! (...and put your parents in the tomb!) I just want freedom to love! (...and kill the baby in your womb!)
I just want freedom to be me! (...freedom to be (what)freedom to be (why))
(...freedom to be (where) freedom to be who ???)
I don't know why I'm in misery, I don't know who is really me,
I don't know where I'm going to,
I don't know what I'm gonna do.....
And I don't know why and I don't know who and I don't know where and I don't know what I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know know know know know know no no no no NO NO NO NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!!
CRY ALL NIGHT LONG
Child breaks down and cries...... the people converge and the sociologists move in; "It's all right, Child, don't worry we are going to take real good care of
you! There, there, now put on this nice jacket so that you don't harm yourself.... everything's going to be allright......"
They carry Child to a cage and put her inside. Downcast and straight-jacketed, Child sits in the cage resigned to her fate. The lighting changes to amood of prison-like surrealism..... Enter first the drummers....
The drummers are creatures with the bodies of men and the heads of cow....they march on stage in a file playing a monotonous beat of forboding doom. They are followed immediately by other creatures, all with heads of different farm
animals; the Lord Mayor and dignitaries are pigs; a group of chicken-women enter and sit down knitting around the cage; others include; turkey-press agents, a sheep-priest, pig-guards and finally the Executioner - a huge white bull, masked and muscular, carrying a gigantic shining axe...... the scene is set..... the Lord Mayor makes the final solemn address and then Child is taken out of the cage and prepared for the execution.....
CHILD
Wait!!!
EXEC.
Oho! The human speaks! Well, what do you have to say before the execution?
CHILD
Please, don't kill me!
EXEC.
Why shouldn't we?
CHILD
I'm too young to die!
EXEC.
You've gotta go sometime!
CHILD
Please have mercy!
EXEC.
It's only a moment agony!
CHILD
How could you be so cold?
EXEC.
'Cause you haven't got a soul!
CHILD
But what have I done to you?
EXEC.
Do you want to see the proof?
CHILD
Proof? I'm not guilty!
EXEC.
Read out the charges!
PROS.
This Child was caught freely roaming in the district, and upon examination, was found to be.... a human being! (Other animals begin murming to each other..)
CHILD
But what's wrong with that?
EXEC.
Whats wrong with that? (laughs grimly) Dont you know there's a war on? Millions of our brothers and sisters have been mercilessly killed by your lot, and all you can say is, "What's wrong with that". Read out the figures!
PROS.
Every year, approximately, twelve million rabits, 95 million cows, 119 million turkeys, 190 million pigs, one and a half billion fish and nearly two billion chickens are imprisoned, tortured and executed, without trial!
CHILD
But... that was for food!
EXEC.
Well, we can eat you!
CHILD
But you don't need flesh-food!
EXEC.
And neither you!
CHILD
I never kill any of you!
EXEC.
No, you get someone else to do your dirty work for you!
CHILD
(crying) ... I'm sorry...I didn't mean any harm....
EXEC.
You can cry, if you like,
Cry all night, cry all night long
As we have cried
But it won't make me forget the painful and bloody debt....
One thousand screams in an endless night,
Unable to move, caged in tight,
And we knew only rumours of fresh air, green grass and sunlight....
They say we haven't got a soul
Well I don't know, but I wept when I saw my children go
And still I hear them moan.....
So yuo can cry if you like,
Cry all night, cry all night long
As we have cried,
But I still recall the day the trucks took us away....
For hours we panicked fought for breath
As we headed for torment and certain death.
As we knew that our life-time of nightmares would soon be
They say we haven't got a soul
Well I don't know but I wept when I saw my children go
And still I hear them moan.....
So you can cry, if you like
Cry all nigh, cry all night long
As we have cried......
I remember those last hours of agony...the bitter sweet smell of death hung in
the air...all around me, my brothers and sisters trumbled and cried, their eyes full of fear...they were waiting for the Inevitable..just up ahead I could see those two-legged animals...their eyes full of natred and their haunted faces showed no mercy...and behind them were their victims...those paralysed friends of mine looked on helplessly as their life-blood gushed and oozed from their bodies...at last I faced the Executioner, I pleaded with him hoping against hope...PLEASE PLEASE HAVE MERCY ON ME I DONT WANT TO DIE...but he did not listen no he did not listen to me...but his eyes glistened, his face tightened, his teeth cleenched shut as he prepared to kill me...my stomach went to liquid, my whole body froze, my heart roared in fear and I closed my eyes and waited for the Inevitable...but something must have gone wrong with the wicked machine fo nothiong happened to me...I don't know why, must have been some kind of mercy from on high...I opened my eyes and saw the human was cursing but I did not stop to ask any questions...I saw the gate and made a leap for freedom...I got up bleeding and ran towards the door...I did not know the way out but I saw the sunlight streaming in from the door...so I ran towards it, running like I'd never run before...all around me all I could hear were shouts and cries of alarm, but I did not stop, just kept going, running more and more...running like I'd never run before...then suddenly I was outside in the sunshine...I'd never seen anything like this before but I did not stop, just kept running, running, running, running more and more...far across the fields into the forest...I kept running till I could run no more...and I lay me down in the dewy grass...and I heard the skybirds singing free...and I smelt the fragrance of the earth...and
I saw the sunlight streaming through the trees...and I cried...yes I cried like I'd never cried before...
so you can cry if you like
cry all night, cry all night long
As we have cried.....as we have cried.........