The Lone Rhinoceros by Adrian Belew, Album: Lone rhino, 1982

I'm a lone rhinoceros
there ain't one hell of a lots of us
left in this world

I stand alone in my concrete cell
where people stare and toss me Coke cans
I guess it's better than being poached
but I'd give my horn just to see my homeland

I'm a lone rhinoceros
there ain't one hell of a lots of us
left in this world

They say I am ugly,
call me a beast
I hear them snicker
when I'm half asleep
Is beauty such a big commodity
I always heard it was only so deep

I'm a lone rhinoceros
there ain't one hell of a lots of us
left in this world

I know the zoos protect my species
they give me food, collect my feces
but I can't help it, I miss the past
I'll never again see my good old mudbath

A song about wild life in cage. A rhino is sad because he’s closed in a zoo, away from his homeland and habitat. Keeping wild life in cage doesn’t serve knowledge and educational purposes. It’s a remnant of colonization era, when many rich collectors invade exotic places and steal cultural and archaeological items from exotic tribes and nations, capture strange and rare animals and kept them in cage in the zoos. Sometimes they also captured humans of exotic tribes and kept them in cages beside the cages of lions and rhinos. No respect of the way of a different life, no matter how good the living conditions in cage are. It’s like prisoners in a luxurious prison, do any of us prefer such a thing from freedom? The only educational message of keeping life in cage is the perpetuation of human superiority attitude towards other forms of life.

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