When I was younger I would need 10 sugars
Trying to get my coffee down
Go to sleep at half past 3 when I could pass out
Ten years workin' at that dream
Stop wanting as much of the sugar and cream
The bitterness dulls the edge and you can get to sleep by ten
We all, keep sayin' that we won't get caught like everyone else
We all, keep sayin' that we won't get old like everyone else
Snowflakes tend to melt
Your cracks, they tend to swell
Before too long in a mirror you see everyone else
I used to laugh when my old man, couldn't race me up a hill
Or when my mother would tell me to take it slow
Now I'm dreamin' of a made up past
Wishin that time didn't kill so fast
Sarcastically askin' where have all the soldiers gone
They all, keep sayin' that we won't get caught like everyone else
They all, keep sayin' that it won't get old like everyone else
Make them "great" again
And we'll forget it's all pretend
And before too long we believe that it's everyone else
I was made to believe we're all uniquely human
I'm finding out exactly what that means
There is no other being with such capacity for compassion
Or such capacity for doing harm
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When I was younger I believed that we were all of equal worth
And in the end we'd all be fine if we did what's right
That the deck's not stacked
And we could be whatever we want in the land of the free but I
See things every day that I just can't accept
And I'll keep sayin' that I'll never end up like everyone else
And I'll keep sayin' that I'll never give up like everyone else
Fear won't ever go
So let everybody know
That you won't keep quiet and you won't sit down
That we're all from somewhere but we're from here now
That you don't need to step on me to feel great
That you got enough love to take on the hate
That you'll be the change that you want to see
That I'll look out for you and you'll look out for me
That we won't give up and will not be moved
We've taken on worse and we don't plan to lose
Oh how great the sorrow
Oh how great the pain
When I wake up tomorrow
I will go to work again
I will go to work again
I will go to work again