The White Coated Man (song)

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Album This song officially appears on the Wide Prairie Official album.

Timeline This song has been officially released in 1998

The Way You Look Tonight

The Word

Master release

Wide Prairie

By Linda McCartney

Related sessions

This song has been recorded during the following studio sessions

"Flowers In The Dirt" sessions at Hog Hill Mill

April - July 1988

Related interviews

You Gave Me The Answer - 'Wide Prairie'

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Song facts

From Wide Prairie liner notes:

Linda’s and my involvement with animal rights caused her and our friend Carla Lane to come up with The White Coated Man. Carla’s poignant lyric explores the vivisection issue.
Linda felt deeply about the suffering of innocent animals for mankind’s gain, which still continues to this day and will until we can as a society show compassion towards the creatures we share our planet with.
Paul McCartney

Last updated on November 10, 2020

Lyrics

Through the bars and morning light
What is this feeling?
Why can't I move?
Sometime today they'll set me free
I'll hear a voice and it will be my friend,
The white coated man

Where's the wind? Where are the leaves?
What happened? Why this pain?
Sometime today they'll set me free
I'll hear a voice and it will be my friend,
The white coated man

If man wants life and eternity
Then men must pay and men must see
That we are theirs to mind
But man is the voice, man is the law
If man gets sick he will find a cure
Our friend, the white coated man

In the distance people are laughing
Do they know about me?
Why can't I see?
And they will pay, the silent ones
And they will pay, the silent ones will pay
The silent ones will pay
The silent ones will pay
The silent ones will pay