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The remarkable 1971 album “Sunfighter” by Paul Kantner & Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane includes a booklet created by Slick and a poem by Jack Traylor. The inner vinyl album sleeve contains “Pets” by Traylor:<\/p>\n
Pets<\/strong><\/p>\n We keep bugs in boxes and bottles just to see how they behave,<\/p>\n And we watch them live their lives out from the egg into the grave,<\/p>\n No, we don’t care to make things better in the prison where they are bound<\/p>\n And they don’t know that they are prisoners as they wander all around.<\/p>\n But if they’d turn their eyes to heaven, they’d see lights away so far<\/p>\n They’d never know that what they’re seeing was just a light upon a jar.<\/p>\n What if we too are prisoners, and are helplessly observed<\/p>\n And the probes of some super power have us caged upon the Earth<\/p>\n And they don’t care to make things better in this prison of our birth<\/p>\n For they find us of casual interest and of very little worth.<\/p>\n And if you turn your eyes to heaven, and see those lights away so far<\/p>\n Those lights you see, not the Milky Way. It’s just the label on a jar.<\/p>\n They watch us crawl upon each other; they watch us live and breed and die.<\/p>\n We are but toys to teach their children of their universe so wide.<\/p>\n And they won’t care when we have vanished; they’ll throw the cage away.<\/p>\n Replace us with some other object and go along their own way.<\/p>\n And if you turn your eyes to heaven, and see those lights away so far<\/p>\n Those lights you see; they’re not the Milky Way. It’s just the label on a jar.<\/p>\n Look who is on this album!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Jack Traylor wrote the song “Earth Mother” for Sunfighter. He sings and plays the guitar on this track. Here are the lyrics to “Earth Mother”:<\/p>\n Earth Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Earth mother your children are here <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Once the earth was a garden <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Once the air was for breathing <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Earth mother your children are here <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Water was once for drinking <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Earth mother your children are here <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>It’s not your fault you’re ill now <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Your children are your salvation <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Dancing in the meadows <<\/p>\n p class=”b_paractl”>Earth mother your children are here \n\n
\nHigh and feeling dandy
\nEarth mother your children are here
\nRipped on coke and candy<\/p>\n
\nIt gave us all we need
\nThen it grew so barren
\nAll because of greed<\/p>\n
\nAnd clouds caused rain to fall
\nThen it filled with poisons
\nStrangling us all<\/p>\n
\nHigh and feeling dandy
\nEarth mother your children are here
\nRipped on coke and candy<\/p>\n
\nAnd giving life to the land
\nThen it was used for cooling
\nThe machinery of man<\/p>\n
\nHigh and feeling dandy
\nEarth mother your children are here
\nRipped on coke and candy<\/p>\n
\nIt’s the men who went before
\nYour children are at your side now
\nDon’t worry anymore<\/p>\n
\nThey see your life as their own
\nThey recognize no nation
\nThey dance around your throne<\/p>\n
\nTo the sound of a living tree
\nIn and out of the shadows
\nLaughing with the breeze<\/p>\n
\nHigh and feeling dandy
\nEarth mother your children are here
\nRipped on coke and candy<\/p>\n