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 them loose
Discover love anew and you knew what it was coming to
What are you gonna do?
You and me, we decided: We decline to be divided
It's human beings I side with and each of the creatures
I would please 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 the system?
Was a drop in the liquid? A dot in the ink
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, colours and families
Strands that run through the tapestry
Feeding the fruit on the apple tree
Preceding, providing Sir Newton with gravity
A new view of reality, you're a cell in the 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
Get up through effort and sweat and in grit and endeavour
These are the things that bring us together, from king to beggar
Sing, give every peasant a throne
Rise 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're loved, 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, Mecca, Delhi, Sierra Leone
Everywhere under the celestial globe
Set it in stone, shout from the mountains
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 crowds are spread out, but they're 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 fish in a digital age
Where it's tricky to listen, engage
Each different day is a difficult maze
Where grifting on minimum wage
Bears 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
Begin it and say 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 them loose
Discover love anew and you knew what it was coming to
What are you gonna do?
You and me, we decided: We decline to be divided
It's human beings I side with and each of the creatures
I would please 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