[00:00:00] Slaughter of Innocence - Conflict [00:00:23] The balding man sits compiling [00:00:25] His next move [00:00:27] That mortgage hangs around his neck [00:00:28] Now feeling like a noose [00:00:30] The new gas bill oh God [00:00:31] How bad he feels [00:00:33] Those kids he can't reject [00:00:34] His emotional success [00:00:36] He's a man of set opinion [00:00:37] The weight of the world sits in his hands [00:00:39] He just cannot seem to reason [00:00:41] So he will never understand [00:00:42] They just won't listen to hardly anything he says [00:00:45] They simply smile politely [00:00:47] Then with one accord turn away [00:00:49] A son stands at the pond observing [00:00:50] The creation that is nature [00:00:52] Mother prepares dinner [00:00:53] Roasting bacon taints the air [00:00:55] Dog sits as master barks [00:00:56] Then leaps lovingly into the car [00:00:58] He waves and smiles emotionally [00:01:00] His assurance that they will go far [00:01:01] The stakes rise as each owner unfolds plans [00:01:04] Men tempt and bait each other [00:01:06] Money exchanges hands [00:01:08] Animal love now snarling hatred [00:01:09] Muzzle unlocked hair raised [00:01:11] He smirks from behind the wooden [00:01:13] Fence and shouts his destitute his praise [00:01:14] Teeth tear blood splashes [00:01:16] The face of a young child playing [00:01:17] She cries out in disapproval [00:01:19] But daddy's now immune to what she is saying [00:01:20] Driven mad and into frenzy [00:01:22] Limbs torn skin is shorn [00:01:23] Like sex perverts at their peep show [00:01:25] This is the ultimate in porn [00:01:27] Eyes glare Beast and master [00:01:28] Animals both crazed and weary [00:01:30] There can only be one real winner here [00:01:32] The results are now seen clearly [00:01:33] Teeth marks bare where fur once protected [00:01:35] Flesh hangs dangling in shreds [00:01:36] Their faces grimace rejected [00:01:38] Strips of meat exposed selected [00:01:39] Bloodstains and saliva splatter [00:01:41] The fuel of precious life [00:01:43] Master and servant [00:01:44] Segregate the ritual sacrifice [00:01:46] Driven mad and into frenzy [00:01:47] Limbs torn skin is shorn [00:01:49] Like sex perverts at their peep show [00:01:51] This is the ultimate in porn [00:02:05] The sacrifice of innocents [00:02:07] Who obeyed the spoken law [00:02:09] Took the heaviest of knocks [00:02:10] Tired beyond indurance [00:02:11] But the spectators cry for more [00:02:12] Death before dishonor [00:02:13] A demand that is so obscene [00:02:15] The men they appraise each [00:02:16] Other to keep their conscience clean [00:02:18] Laughter hides the guilt they [00:02:20] Feel at every savage blow [00:02:22] Someone whispers "cruelty" [00:02:23] But they don't want to know [00:02:25] The balding man stands silent [00:02:26] As slave fights for life [00:02:28] He thinks of all the good things [00:02:30] That he has promised to his wife [00:02:31] She caught a glimpse of God through [00:02:33] The windscreen of his car [00:02:34] She tried to rationalise [00:02:35] Her looks but time don't heal the scars [00:02:37] Some vague association [00:02:39] She feels with the loser of the stake [00:02:40] She stares into those sightless eyes [00:02:42] What use for heaven sake [00:02:44] The TV flickers images of [00:02:45] The ideals she once knew [00:02:46] The fresh young girls displaying [00:02:47] Soap to keep us clean and new [00:02:49] She shrugs and folds [00:02:51] Her arms as he constructs the wooden box [00:02:53] To hold his faded hope [00:02:55] That took the heaviest of knocks [00:02:57] Like pissing in the ocean [00:02:58] Their options disappear [00:03:00] As they think about the overheads [00:03:02] They know the taste of fear [00:03:03] Kids to feed and clothing [00:03:05] They must show how much they care [00:03:06] But how to tell the birthday gift [00:03:08] Is lying dead out there [00:03:09] What should have paid for birthday cards [00:03:11] Went on the prime cut beef [00:03:13] Now celebrations of their birth [00:03:14] Make way for tears of grief