The Social Experiment - Tilikum Lyrics

Captured in Iceland
November eighty-three
Two years old and frightened
Taken from the sea
One life taken away
He spent the next year in a zoo
One family in pain
Forced into a medical pool
One heart distraught
Transferred to Sea World nineteen ninety-two
No life
Not ours to abuse
Not bred for misuse
Tilly had twenty-one calves in captivity
All bred for entertainment tricks for a fee
Eight times a day seven days a week no empathy
His health deteriorating needs to be free
Locked away in solitary confinement now
Tilly's lost the will to live hopes and dreams have gone
He's stressed and becomes aggressive
Three people dead
But the torture continues
Living in hell
Tilly's kept in isolation limited ability to swim
He lies still in the water he has a collapsed dorsal fin
His teeth ground down to nothing from chewing through his concrete home
No love no care no compassion no interaction he's all alone
All alone
In a vegetative state
All alone
No companions no mate
All alone
This is no life
No life
Just for your entertainment Tilly's life was lost
A life led in misery did you know the cost?
Tilly returns to performing the show must go on
No tricks no food you'll suffer they don't belong
Tilly's health spirals downwards it's another case of pneumonia
The most common death cause in captive dolphins and orca whales
January twenty-seventeen it's announced Tilikum has died
Thirty-four years trapped and tortured he's not the first
He won't be the last
Be the last in captivity
Be the last death sets them free
Be the last tortured for gain
Boycott fast
Boycott fast
Boycott fast
Boycott fast
Boycott fast
Boycott fast