"Rustyspoon"...

Listening to your song, "Old Tiger", was a poignant, emotional, and angering listening experience, sir. It reminded me of why I have not patronized, or taken any children, to zoos or circuses for the last twenty years. IF you pay close enough attention to captive creatures pacing up and down, up and down in their cages, behaving aggressively toward each other, or lying on the ground virtually inert, apparently sleeping all day until it's time to eat, you realize that they're miserable and sick because they're out of their natural element.

Enough of that, right? Sure. This is not a forum for animal activism. I get that. Now, back to your song. I think your lyrics are humane and heart-breakingly sensitive, yet savagely imaginative at the same time. You succeeded in pulling me, a simple listener, into the mind and heart of a so-called "wild" animal, a non-human creature of an entirely different species that I have no hope of ever encountering unless I take a trip to its home country and environs. And yet, you caused me to empathize with its suffering.

The music echoed the hypnotic performance music of circuses and carnival midways, but with a near-sinister minor-key funkiness that enabled your extended intro to pull me into your world.

I would say that "Old Tiger" is some kind of achievement in this forum. I've only participated in it since 2009, I think, but I'm pretty sure I've never heard a song about any kind of animals.

In Genesis, God gave man "dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." However, I didn't read anything there about us humans being given permission to coerce those "living things" to jump through hoops of fire, stand on their hind legs and prance around wearing flower wreaths around their necks, all to the sound of a leather whip being cracked.

God bless you, "Rustyspoon", for using your musical talent to rouse your listeners' empathy for the animal victims of a form of "so-called" entertainment that needs to end, in my opinion.

Truly,

LOREN (a.k.a. "bluage")

Last edited by bluage; 11/13/18 11:57 AM.
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