Here Come The Animals

(Chip Taylor)

Back Road Music, B.M.I.



There's a widow from Montgomery

Who's been left with five children

And she wants to leave them something

To remember from their daddy

So she goes to the courthouse

And asks for some justice

Because he died from hard labor

And bad, bad conditions



Here come the animals, here come the animals

Walking just like the humans

The lawyers and the cannibals

Here come the animals



There's a woman whose been abused

By some crafty politician

She's had her share of the blues

And all she wants is an admission

But he calls for a meeting

A high powered sit in

Where they test all responses

Until they find a lie that fits him



Here come the animals, here come the animals

Talking just like humans

The liars and the cannibals

Here come the animals



There's a bad fog in the Phillipines

That's been killin' off the children

It don't come from God's rain cloud

It comes from timber slashed and burning

There's a mother masked and crying

And there's a father sick and angry

He says no, no, no

It ain't all about the money, is it



Here come the animals, here come the animals

crawling just like the humans

the losers, the cannibals

Here come the animals

And at times when I have been needed

I have run from my brother

And I have turned my back and closed my eyes

I have hid underneath the covers

But I have risen from the darkness

And I have prayed new beginnings

I have asked for new directions that would lead to higher meanings.



And here come the animals, here come the animals

Thinking just like humans

The pushers, the cannibals

The lechers speaking parables

To lovers so available

The touch of a woman's hand

The thrill of a one night stand

Its part of a bigger plan

I seen it on the t.v. land

Sex and the power, sex and the power

Sex and the money

The feel of the money

Sex and the money

Sex and the power

Sex every minute

Power by the hour

Here come the animals

Here come the animals



They're just like the humans

The liars...the cannibals

Here come the animals