Sacrificial Lamb

Oh how you've enjoyed your

Sacrificial lamb

So sweet and soft to hold

So meek and mild and tame.

Oh, let her breathe

You'll just slaughter all her friends

While she watches and is grateful

That her tiny head was spared.

After all…

You love her.

Oh how you've been sweet to your

Sacrificial lamb

When she cried all week after you slay her mom.

You combed her silken wool

And fed her from the trough

“There, there, sweet lamb, I love you most of all.”

Oh, let her bathe

In your loving light

You give her honey and sugar and delights

Maybe she'll forget the blood that dyed her wool

The evening she ran forward towards the woods.

You caught her by her hoof

And dragged her to the pen

And held her down to help her heal her wounds

How could you let her go?
The pain would be too great

Impossible, you love her most of all.

Oh how you've enjoyed your

Sacrificial lamb

She bleats all night a sad and sullen song

How special that she sings you lullabies.

Oh, you loved her so

Until she grew those fangs

And learned to dig her way through rock and stone.

How you felt betrayed

How could she be so cruel?

She bit your cuff and spit blood on your shoe.

With heavy heart you slay

Your sacrificial lamb

She never would again dare be so bold.

Oh how you've enjoyed

Your sacrificial lamb

So sweet and soft…

You'll have to start again.