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Cruelty Without Beauty Lyrics
Disinfected torture chamber
A scientific abattoir
Their death is the price of your progress
If these walls could talk
They'd scream!
No empathy
No dignity
Cruelty without beauty
Cruelty without beauty
Archaic rhetoric your weak defense
Your victims have no choice
No voice
Look in their eyes
Does it still make sense?
A plastic bag their burial gown
No empathy
No dignity
Cruelty without beauty
Cruelty without beauty
A legacy of evil you preserve
Their blood cannot be washed clean
In my eyes their brutal fate you deserve
In your dreams you will hear them scream
A scientific abattoir
Their death is the price of your progress
If these walls could talk
They'd scream!
No dignity
Cruelty without beauty
Your victims have no choice
No voice
Does it still make sense?
A plastic bag their burial gown
No dignity
Cruelty without beauty
Their blood cannot be washed clean
In my eyes their brutal fate you deserve
In your dreams you will hear them scream
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I'm pretty sure it's about animals in laboratories :
"Disinfected torture chamber A scientific abattoir Their death is the price of your progress" "desinfected torture chamber" and "scientific abattoir" refer to a laboratory, to me. The animals die for human progress.
"If these walls could talk They'd scream!" Refers to the suffering that happens in labs.
"Archaic rhetoric your weak defense Your victims have no choice No voice" People who support the use of animals in labs always give the same old arguments ("archaic rhetoric weak defense")
Animals didn't choose to be there, they cab't talk. can't talk. ("no choice", "no voice")
"a plastic bag their burial gown" -> dead animals are disposed of in plastic bags
That's my interpretation. Great song.
That is a correct interpretation FrightRat :) Angela herself said it was about animal cruelty in labs and such when I saw Arch Enemy live. So if anyone thought different they're wrong.