Asking For a Friend

Trying to make sense of troubles times
Always so hard for a troubled mind
So many people trying to find a way to make the wrong seem right
How do we navigate our way
With words that don't mean what they say
Within a language that keeps changing what it means from day to day

I don't know why
There are so many people who
Think that it's fine
To seek out where to take offence
Please tell me where you think this ends
But know that I'm just asking for a friend

A media feeding on our fears
I think that I see what's happening here
Don't wanna believe it but I fear that the agenda is so clear
Should I pretend that I don't see
So much shameless fakery
Signals from such an un-virtuous and closed minority

Where do we go
If so many people just
Don't wanna know
When facts are inconvenient
Please tell me where you think this ends
But know that I'm just asking for a friend

I don't know why
There are so many people who
Live in denial
When reasoning and evidence
Are sure to cause a feigned offence
The witch hunt season starts again
Please tell me where you think this ends
But know that I'm just asking for a friend