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Survival Of The Fittest

from Green Album by Ari Lesser

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Darwinism falls in love

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Survival of the Fittest

A tiger is a quarter-ton killing machine
Anywhere from eight feet long to thirteen
Four muscular legs give it great power
Allowing it to reach speeds of forty miles an hour

Or leap thirty feet taking prey by surprise
Bringing down buffalo six times it’s size
With retractable five inch claws on it’s paws
And razor sharp teeth in it’s flesh tearing jaws

So if you had to bet on a competition
Between a grown man in peak physical condition
And a Bengal tiger brought straight from the wild
The choice would be simple, even to a simple child

A UFC master of mixed martial arts
Would be done for, minutes after the match starts
An unarmed man would not just be beaten
He’d be really disarmed when his arms were eaten

The boldest of men would be quick to admit
The big cat is far more physically fit
But if Darwin was right and the fittest survives
Why are tigers endangered, while the human race thrives

Tigers are stronger, so one would think
It should be us humans going extinct
While the fierce felines atop the food chain
Maintain their reign over earth’s domain

Obviously, that’s not going on
But that doesn’t mean that Darwin was wrong
Instead, I would like to submit
That strength alone does not make one fit

You see humans are social, quite contrary
To tigers who tend to be very solitary
They don’t live together or form coalitions
They even kill their own cubs to avoid competition

And because of that the tiger will die
Though it is stronger than you and I
It is not as fit as us all together
So as a community, humans are better

From this one could draw the conclusion
That individuality is an illusion
The idea of going it alone is a lie
Without community, we would all die

It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor
You’re more dependent on society than ever before
You might not like it but you can’t ignore
That we all get food from the grocery store

Our produce was grown in foreign soil
Transported here using foreign oil
We didn’t plant the wheat or pave the street
But we each end up with some food to eat

In a way we were all naturally selected
To run the earth by being interconnected
A human can’t make it just by being strong
We can only survive by getting along

It’s not about strength when push comes to shove
To be fit as a human is all about love
Love has literally kept us alive
Building communities that let us survive

To go it alone is unrealistic
You can’t survive being individualistic
So before you do something selfish, just think
About the all those tigers going extinct

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from Green Album, track released January 12, 2009
Peter Kropotkin: Inspiration

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Ari Lesser Cleveland

Ari Lesser is a singer, songwriter, rapper, and spoken word artist from Cleveland, Ohio. He has performed all over the world, and written hundreds of songs on a wide range of subjects. Ari’s repertoire is expansive, touching on everything from history, to animals, to Star Wars, but now his focus and passion is making music based on the Torah. ... more

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