wilco - feed of man

이 노래는 인간이 서로에게 가하는 폭력과 고통을 비판하며, 기존의 신념 체계를 의심하게 만든다
화자는 인간의 삶을 더 풍요롭게 만들고, 서로 돕고 성장하는 방향으로 나아가야 한다고 주장한다
마지막으로, 인간은 다시 한 번 자신의 존재 의미를 찾아야 한다고 강조한다

If you beat up, you butcher and you bleed a man
You bang up and badger and blood-let a man
And then I come along on the feet of man
And halfway laugh and cry about the meat of man
And I do what I can
To bale string and tie
Some ballad truths
Up and cured out
For the feed of man
Folks try to tell me that it's on God's orders
That you bleed your man
It's on God's good word that you bleed your man
On God's plan, print that you dead a man
Or spit and curse and whip your man
I say I'll help you squeeze and fix yourself up
A new kind of God of some kind
One that tells you, fertilize and multiply
One that tells you, outsow and outblow
Outplant and outgrow
Outdo and outrun and outclimb and outspread
Every other tree and bush
And brushy fruits and flower petals
Outfruit them all for the feed of man
Outstalk and outhunt and outthink
For God's own sweet sake, outthink! Outthink!
Outthink the fruits
Outgrow these animal kinds and shapes of man
It you miss and go down
Your dust will turn up on that long hot job
Once more again