THE SKIN OF THE PLANET

Foxes electrocuted in wire cages
Calves torn from mothers to become leather
Alligators skinned alive on luxury farms
Human fashion wears the skin of the planet

We skin the earth, we skin life
We wear our vanity with corpses

The skin of the planet, the skin of the planet
Sewn into bags, shoes and coats
The skin of the planet, the skin of the planet
The earth bleeds while man parades

Calf leather, snake skin
Silk from silkworms, wool from tortured sheep
Nothing is ours, everything is stolen
From the bodies of the innocent, from the body of the earth

And when the skin of the planet rebels?
When the desert advances?
When the ice melts?
The earth takes, her own skin back

The skin of the planet, the planet responds
Drought, flood, fire the earth takes revenge
The skin of the planet, our cities fall
The naked earthling, dies of cold