Disco Pigs, Part Two: “Year of The Pig”

« Pigs at the trough show no fear

Fat full of death they will not starve this year

Feed stains their skin in the mud

Fed through the nose plant their feet in the blood

Pigs at the trough getting fat

Surfeit of the beast turned to tricks for a feast

Tear into the filth like a whore

Suck the meat from the bones leave the corpse on the floor

Pigs at the trough disappear

One final meal before kissing the spear

Skins on the hook left to dry

Just use the flesh, pay no mind to the hide

Pigs at the trough slit and squeal

Done up and stuck like a pig for a meal

Painted and tied and dressed up

Get it on your hands as it fills your cup

Pigs at the trough are to blame

They are the monsters we never became,

They poison our crops and our name,

We hate that we need them to manage our shame

Pigs at the trough live in grime,

Carrion meals fit for these profane swine

No mind to the scum they live in,

They tremble in fear as they swallow your sin

Pigs at the trough swell and burst,

Bearing the brunt as they launder the cursed

We keep our pigs in a pen,

Our place to defile again and again and again and again

Pigs killing pigs turned to pigs killing pigs

Pigs fed to pigs turned to pigs fed to pigs

The famers asleep under the tree

No ones here watching over us

Ashamed of what pigs mean to men

Ashamed of what we do to them

Ashamed of the pig in our head

Ashamed so we kill them instead

Pigs at the trough are obscene,

Punish the products but not the machine

Pregnant with guilt and disgrace

Delivering scorn on the mess they create

The pigs at the trough are pristine,

They live in our dirt and still they stay clean

Recoil from the stigma and hate,

And suffer the pig who can’t change its fate »

« Year of the Pig «

-Fucked Up

surfeit:–noun

1.excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.

2.excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.3.an uncomfortably full or crapulous feeling due to excessive eating or drinking.4.general disgust caused by excess or satiety.

–verb (used with object)

5.to bring to a state of surfeit by excess of food or drink.

6.to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.

–verb (used without object)7.to eat or drink to excess.8.to suffer from the effects of overindulgence in eating or drinking.9.to indulge to excess in anything.

Origin:

1250–1300;  (n.) ME sorfete, surfait < MF surfait, surfet (n. use of ptp. of surfaire to overdo), equiv. to sur- sur-1  + fait < L factus, ptp. of facere to do ( see fact); (v.) sorfeten, deriv. of the n.

—Related forms

un·sur·feit·ed, adjective

un·sur·feit·ing, adjective

—Synonyms

1.  superabundance, superfluity. 5, 6.  stuff, gorge. 6.  fill.

—Antonyms

1.  lack.

v. sur·feit·ed , sur·feit·ing , sur·feits

v. tr. To feed or supply to excess, satiety, or disgust.

v. intr. Archaic

To overindulge.

n.

1. A.Overindulgence in food or drink. B.The result of such overindulgence; satiety or disgust.

2.

3. An excessive amount.

[Middle English surfeten , from surfait , excess , from Old French, from past participle of surfaire , to overdo : sur- , sur- + faire , to do (from Latin facere ; see  dhē-  in Indo-European roots).]

sur’feit·er n.

« You’re nearly a laugh
, but you’re really a cry.
 »

Pink Floyd, « Pigs »

« Occasionally while in captivity, pigs may eat their own Young if they become severely stressed. »

Encyclopedia Brittanica

« Herodotus states that, though he knew the reason why Egyptians abominated swine at their other feasts but they sacrificed them at this one; however, it was to him ‘not a seemly one for me to tell’ ».

-Histories

« and the sow, though it is dividing the hoof, and cleaving the cleft of the hoof, yet the cud it bringeth not up — unclean it is to you. »

Leviticus, 11:4

“The swine-It is a filthy, foul-feeding animal, and it lacks one of the natural provisions for purifying the system, “it cheweth not the cud”; in hot climates indulgence in swine’s flesh is particularly liable to produce leprosy, scurvy, and various cutaneous eruptions. It was therefore strictly avoided by the Israelites. Its prohibition was further necessary to prevent their adopting many of the grossest idolatries practised by neighboring nations.”

-Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Comentary

“An oasis of horror in a sea of boredom.”

-Charles Baudelaire

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