Animal Lyrics - Educated Guess - Ani Difranco

More and more there is this animal 

Looking out through my eyes 

At all the traffic on the road to nowhere 

At all the shiny stuff around to buy 

At all the wires in the air 

At all the people shopping 

For the same blank stare 

At America the drastic 

That isolated geographic 

That's become infested with millionaires 

When you grow up surrounded 

By willful ignorance 

You have to believe 

Mercy has its own country 

And that it's round and borderless 

And then you have to grow wings 

And rise above it all 

Like there 

Where that hawk is circling 

Above that strip mall 

More and more there is this animal 

Looking out through my eyes 

Seeing that animals only take from this world 

What they need to survive 

But she is prowling through all the religions of men 

Seeing that time and time and time again 

Their gods have made them 

Special and above 

Nature's law 

And the respect thereof 

And I think when you grow up surrounded 

By willful ignorance 

You have to believe that mercy has its own country 

And that it's round and borderless 

And then you just grow wings 

And rise above it all 

Like there where that hawk is circling 

Above that strip mall 

Ask any eco-system 

Harm here is harm there 

And there and there 

And aggression begets aggression 

It's a very simple lesson 

That long preceded any king of heaven 

And there's this brutal imperial power 

That my passport says I represent 

But it will never represent where my heart lives 

Only vaguely where it went 

'cause I know when you grow up surrounded 

By willful ignorance 

You learn that mercy has its own country 

And that it's round and borderless 

And then you just grow wings 

And rise above it all 

Like there 

Where that hawk is circling 

Above that strip mall