Divided

Deep down
If you could only feel it
Deep down
You are detached from feeling love
Leaving this emptiness
To overwhelm
And you fear what you can't comprehend
So you run away
And hide in your complacency
Believing that
You're isolated

And I feel categorized
By all the things I haven't done
Separated into expectations
Based on things I can't control
Boundaries mean nothing
When they're undefined
And I refuse to let preconceptions
Influence what I think of you

It's hard to see your true colors
When you live in
Black and white

It's hard to see your true colors
When you live in
Black and white

Am I dyed in the wool?
Is it so easy to pick me apart?
Am I dyed in the wool?
Because to me we're both members
Of the same flock

I thought we had so much potential
But complacency
Got the best of us
And I know that there will be loss
But we can't stay in the same place

Division only creates emptiness
Division only creates emptiness

But compassion and acceptance
Can bring you back again
It's not me versus you
And it never was
Us versus them
The only difference was the time it took
For you to understand
You can't imprison our differences
You can't divide us up by land

And I feel like you are living in fear
Letting boundaries of color
Color your perception
And maybe that's why I'm living in a box
Afraid of what you'll think of me
Because people are so quick to judge
The differences
That make us who we are
Are so often held against us

Just because there's been one wolf in wool
It doesn't mean we all have fangs
Only by insisting on uniting
Can we be whole again
Division only creates emptiness
But there is empathy in me
Not apathy