Greet The Sacred Cow Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MysteryAvenger 

Cover art for Greet The Sacred Cow lyrics by Primus

Weird song...

Starts with what sounds like a recording of a tour in the middle east, showing some old schools, you hear the sound of the call to prayer that muslims do 5 times a day. Then the tour guide saying to a little boy, hello back to his greeting, because it's a tradition to greet like that, the tour guy says, he is a real religious little shit ! Great stuff !

Greet the sacred cow then kill it....hmmm...

First lines talk about false sympathy for someone. Other lines are hands full of protein, like strength maybe...arms like fire...all consuming and powerful, destroying...then a denial that this person is diplomatic.

So probably about iraq, the americans being like a sacred cow to the arabs, it's a false reverence towards the americans helping them, not really deserved but unquestionable. So the line kill the sacred cow is the image of america being saviors, without question. So the message here is to think for yourself I believe.