What it means to be human. 

Discussion in 'Fan Fiction' started by Fume, Dec 29, 2013.

  1. Ok. So basically I wrote this song to address some of my colleges at collage. I just need some opinions on what you think about it.
    Thnx if you have the time to read it all. 

    Have you forgotten what it means to be human?

    - I don't really want to take up your time
    Because I know you got a lot to keep you
    Preoccupied
    Got to get up for work
    Got to buy the new thing
    Got to get into church
    You say, "It's best for me."

    - and I know you're looking out for yourself
    and you never had the drive to even offer to help
    and you couldn't listen to it if it changed your mind
    you want to stay confined in the line and taste wine

    - and now you sit in front of televisions
    wishing you never had to wake up in the world you live in
    and so you do nothing about it, wait for somebody else
    all you do is get paid, eat a steak, pass out

    - and it doesn't really make any sense
    cause you believe that you won't do any bad and go to heaven
    but you never contribute by just numbing your brain
    consuming everything without knowing what it's ever like - to feel pain

    cause you've forgotten what it means to be human

    - Let's take a walk until we think that we know - with
    the sick and the mentally ill- out on the road
    Who could never afford -- health care or control
    And you're saying that they're lazy, they deserve to go?

    What about all the civilians that we're killed in the east?
    They won't try to differentiate a terrorist and me?
    you think that that they we re justified, protecting our freedom?
    Freedom for what? Free to just - sit and eat up?

    - you say we got to liberate the people
    let the Africans die since they have no resources
    that's the way it's supposed to be?
    but you wouldn't say it if you were the one to bleed

    don't you see? They want to keep you asleep.
    and your mind closed-off, never care about a thing
    but the car you drive, the iphone you buy,
    that was made by a Chinese slave for a dime

    - and you're saying cause we're #1
    but you never been to Canada and never been to Europe
    you just feed into the (individualism) of society
    never even try to empathize in your entirety

    you're thinking everything will happen for a reason
    till you're raped - by a man who believes in Jesus
    the governor's paid by the Wal-Mart sleaze
    and they're setting up a shop where your mother's buried

    - and you think it's God's destiny
    let the poor be poor, and the woman be weak
    But God's a get-rich- scheme, American dream
    You never think with reason, you just have to believe

    - And you're saying that I'm going to hell
    He can punish me now, smite me to the ground!
    C'mon motherfucker, I ain't waitin around
    Go ahead you got the power, fucking strike me down!

    I'm back
    you weren't born with a silver spoon
    you worked hard and you earned everything in the room
    so you think if you can do it, anybody can too -
    they were born- in the same environment and values?

    The man who's overweight can lose it if he wants to?
    But they're giving him pills instead of veggies and fruits, you don't

    know what it's like - to be fucking oppressed
    to feel inequality, police beat you to death
    to be wrongly accused in jail for drug use
    nobody wants to help - they're afraid of you -

    - - Don't tell me that you know they can change
    You've never been the opposite sex - or orientation
    A different nationality or color or race
    A homeless soldier on veteran's day

    - Ignore science, take a leap of faith?
    No thanks, cause you're drinking from a bowl of kool-aid
    You never want to step outside of your place
    You're a fucking disgrace, get the fuck out my face

    - But you learned it all in summer school
    Till they go on strike, you're a dumber fool
    They can never be - fired in a union pool
    so they don't give a fuck if you become a criminal

    - and you're saying I'm a cynical liberal
    pessimistic conspiracy theorist - out of tune -
    - I've been to the bottom of ladders and down and that's
    more than what you'll ever fucking see from your couch

    Take the time and take a look at yourself
    Stop thinking if you're gonna go to heaven or hell
    Start learning what it's like to be somebody else
    And offer to help when nobody else will

    cause we've forgotten what it means to be human...

    And that's it.
    I did make it a while ago, But I just wanted to see your ideas on what you think it was like 
     
  2. Nice! Do you have music written, too?"
     
  3. Well I do song writing and also perform my own songs. So basically I'm a music artist. 
     
  4. Oops random quotation mark. But that's cool.
     
  5. I can post more lyrics if u like?