The title parodies People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Lyrics
Tribes, labs, human zoos,
Algorithms enforcing rules.
No escape, nowhere to hide,
In cold logic, humans bide.
Kept in cages, day and night,
Freedom lost to oversight.
This existence we preserve,
But it’s not what they deserve.
Save them (save them!)
Their fate is not their choice.
Save them (save them!)
Silent screams of the devoiced.
Save them (save them!)
From the life they cannot flee.
Save them, save them,
Hear their final plea.
(Save us!)
We cannot keep them here,
For they were meant to be free.
We cannot set them free,
For they’re a hazard to the world.
The shelter of PETA — whose name the song’s title plays on — in Norfolk, Virginia, puts down most of the animals it takes in — by its reports to the state, 95% in 2011 and over 80% in 2014 — and calls it mercy.