Gangster Arrangement

Now, this is a very strange thing you see,
That it is partly true
That the universe so far as its biological aspect is concerned
Is this weird system that lives by
Everybody eating everybody else
Only what we do to maintain what is called order and civilization
Is that various species make agreement
That they won't eat each other
They'll cooperate and so be an enormous gang
Which can beat down the others
So the human being is the most successful, so far,
Of this gangster arrangement
We are the most predatory monsters on Earth
And we have cooperated to assault the fish,
And the vegetables, and the chickens, and the cows,
And everything you see?
Only we do it by not letting our left hand know
What our right hand doeth. In other words, ladies and gentlemen,
Unless gentlemen happen to be prone to going hunting as a sport
They don't see their food killed
They don't see the slaughterhouse
And so what you get in the butcher, in the market is steak, you know?
It's a thing in its own right, it has nothing to do with a cow
Steak is a thing shaped thus and so,
It looks as if it might be like a banana or something like that,
You know and nobody worries
And when a fish is served up, it does indeed look like a fish,
But it's not the squigley and squirmy fish that comes out
On the end of a fisherman's line
You know, when you really fish you realize
That the fish doesn't like it very much

In this gangster arrangement
We are the most predatory monsters on Earth
So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat
In this gangster arrangement
In this gangster arrangement
We are the most predatory monsters on Earth
So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat
In this gangster arrangement

There is that absolutely extraordinary side of things
That is really terrifying, and so let me repeat (so, so let me repeat)
The illustration I used of the cross in the net
Where one side of it is scissors, that cut and eat, teeth that chew
And get this thing in and the opening side of
It is like James Joyce's Ulysses
The girl who says "yes" and I said "yes, yes, yes,"
She wants to be absolutely ravaged by her man, you see?
So, it's open, open, open
But now comes the if we take the dark view of things,
The horrible view, excuse me if I go into some rather grizzly details,
But have you ever heard of a vagina dentata?
That is the idea that in the sexual organ of the woman,
There are teeth
And a lot of men have this fantasy, and so are rendered impotent
They don't make love
Because they feel that the price of this blessed experience
This creative experience, loving experience, he's going to get cut
You're going to get emasculated
You're going to lose your precious member

In this gangster arrangement
We are the most predatory monsters on Earth
So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat
In this gangster arrangement
In this gangster arrangement
We are the most predatory monsters on Earth
So, let me repeat, so, so let me repeat
In this gangster arrangement

This is a very ancient fantasy,
It appears throughout all known history
Because this is simply the woman's come on
Where she attracts but she's out really to get you
She is basically a spider mother you see
Who is selfish, and doesn't really love you
Not really, but says she does
And of course there are on the other side all
The tricks of the men, which we can go without mentioning