Lyrics Social Animals - Arrowhead

Social Animals

If you only listen with half an ear, you only have a quarter of the right to
criticise
So sit down, shut up and listen
It’s been a hell of a ride through the past few years
I’ve fought, conquered and gained new fears
I’ve been built up, broken and rebuilt again
We’re all in this together, in the lions den
It seems the worlds run by crazy people
With no one to stand up for the weak and feeble
The racists from the history books are out in the streets
Spouting hate disguised as free speech
Think this is peace?
Get informed
We’re more divided than ever before
It’s a wild, wild world, we don’t trust one another
We’re social animals but we’re eating each other
So much time spent on our phones
Hundreds of «friends,» but we feel so alone
We give the stage to those with no love in their hearts
Then we act surprised when the fires start
At each other’s throats, coming to a head
My newsfeed says we’ll all soon be dead
Threats of war being thrown around
But I’ll believe it when the lights go down
This isn’t peace, get informed
This is a different kind of war
Does it feel familiar, have you seen it before?
Have we travelled back to 1964?
Hurtling towards this inevitable end
It’s now more than ever that we need friends
The good times will come, we’ll lift the curse
But before this gets better, it’s gonna get worse
We live in a culture that’s growing more and more narcissistic everyday.
We judge our value based on how many likes a photo gets on our Instagram
account and compare ourselves to celebrities whose heights we could never hope
to reach
And while we strive for some semblance of fulfilment in this digital wasteland,
we ignore the real problems.
Outside in the streets people call for the
slaughter of those who they disagree with, calling for blood and oil,
threatening to send us back in time to an age where we didn’t know any better
Those people are living in a world that has long since past, and they can do
two things.
They can either adapt to the new world, or they can be destroyed
Violence, war, prejudice in the streets
Will nothing change till someone bleeds?
Strip back our disguise, we’re all the same
Social animals, igniting a flame
Where do you stand?
Who do you believe?
Do you stay at home watching it on TV?
Will you defend your flag under attack?
Or will you stand and salute the red, white and black?
And from the ashes let it rise
Something new before our eyes
Let it rise, let it rise
We’ve gone too far, let the past die