[Verse 2] Dragged on a table in a factory Illegitimate place to be In a packet in a lavatory Die, little baby, screaming Body, screaming fucking bloody mess Not an animal It's an abortion
[Chorus] Body, I'm not an animal Body, I'm not an animal An animal I'm not an animal I'm not an animal, an animal, I'm not an animal, I ain't no animal I'm not a body I'm not an animal, an animal... animal I'm not an animal Mummy
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The second song on The Sex Pistols' landmark album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, “Bodies” describes abortion in grisly detail, focusing on one of the crazy people frontman John Lydon got to know. Lydon has always been adamant that the song is neither pro choice nor pro life. In an interview with Spin Magazine, Lydon says:
I don’t think there’s a clearer song about the pain of abortion. The juxtaposition of all those different psychic things in your head and all the confusion, the anger, the frustration, you have to capture in those words."
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