Lyrics Humankind - Dan Bull

Humankind

There were things they said we couldn’t do
We shouldn’t do, we wouldn’t do
But it wasn’t true, it wasn’t true
Said those who govern you
No sudden moves or they’re gonna shoot
But there’s enough abuse we’ve suffered through
If anybody smothers you then cut 'em loose
Discover love anew and you
Knew what it was coming, what are you gonna do?
You and me, we decided
We declined to be divided
It’s human beings I side with
And each of the creatures I
To be seated side to side with
Even the people I mightn’t see eye to eye with
Kindness is the piety that a society thrives in
Every mind is invited with us to find the horizon
The higher we try to fly
The further aloft we are lifted
But what if everyone who existed
Was a cog in a system, was a drop in a liquid
A dot in a link that wrote the historical chronicle
Everyone of us lives in
From the prodigious kid to the not very gifted
We’re a cacophonous mix of abilities
Personalities
Races, nations, colors, and families
Strands that run through the tapestry
Feeding the fruit on the apple tree
Proceeding, providing with gravity
A new view of reality
You’re a cell in a body of a humanity
That will expand beyond your mortality
You say you’d like to live forever
Then give whatever it is
That makes you bigger and better
Whether it’s just having written a letter
Or knitting a sweater
Or developing interstellar inventions
Bringing us fresh frontiers to venture into
Through effort and sweat and grit and endeavor
These are things that bring us together
From king to beggar
Sing, give every peasant a throne
Ride so high, we see heaven below
They say better the devil you know
I say better the devil you don’t
So long as you love, you’re never alone
So long as you love, wherever’s your home
Whether Washington, London, Venice, and Rome
Toronto to Dublin, Vienna, Cologne
Kiev, Delhi, Sierra Leone
Everywhere under the celestial globe
Set it in stone, shout from the mountain
Send out the loudest announcement
However alone you feel right now
You’re surrounded by thousands and thousands and thousands
Of people like you who feel like you do
The grows are spread out countless
When the scenes that you see on the news get you down
Just look out for the helpers helping the helpless
Better get out there and help them
A single being’s a song, a family’s an album
A community is a discography
Can you imagine managing without them?
We swim through bits and waves
Little vision, a digital age
Where it’s tricky to listen, engage
Each different day is a difficult maze
We’re drifting on minimum wage
little difference to living in physical cages
I say this isn’t the way
We’re in the midst of an infinite play
On a spherical stage, you’re given a page
Of the script to fill in
Whatever you’ve written, commit to the change
Which day is it, it’s today?
Which day is it, it’s today?
Which day is it, it’s today?
There were things they said we couldn’t do
We shouldn’t do, we wouldn’t do
But it wasn’t true, it wasn’t true
Said those who govern you
No sudden moves or they’re gonna shoot
But there’s enough abuse we’ve suffered through
If anybody smothers you then cut 'em loose
Discover love anew and you
Knew what it was coming, what are you gonna do?
You and me, we decided
We declined to be divided
It’s human beings I side with
And each of the creatures I
To be seated side to side with
Even the people I mightn’t see eye to eye with
Kindness is the piety that a society thrives in
Every mind is invited with us to find the horizon
The higher we try to fly
We just might have the time of our lives