Caged and helpless
Desperate and Alone
Confused and senseless
Wishing to go home

In a dark room
All filled with the wild
Everything filled with gloom
Scared like a child

Hears the sounds of home
The roar of the lion, squawk of birds
All of them alone
All of them wishing for the herds

The poachers came
To take them all away
To never see home again
If only they hadn’t gone astray

Just an animal taken away
From his free and untamed home
To be slaughtered for pay
To be forever alone.