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Humanity (Feat. Mecca)

from Take Me to Church by T.D.

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(Bridge) (2x) (Mecca)
Tell me about your reasons, tell me about your thoughts
Tell me if life is breathing, tell me if time is lost

(Verse 1) (T.D.)
To have decency is decently redeeming themes
Broken, hopeless, ghosts and beings
I just hope you notice me
Overdosed on lucid dreams
I hope I wrote this opening
To open up and make you scream
You have never seen the things
That repeat in melodies, holding on til hell will freeze
Or church bells ring in time for spring
And let me know, there’s a new beginning
To start it over once again (once again, once again)
To have humanity, takes a bit of sanity
Mixed with Casey Anthony,
Because you’re at the breaking point
Hating life the way its void
Of everything you’ve paved before
Covered in a snow storm
Roads are slick, you’re not warm
Take a moment, hate it all
Take a moment, let it fall
Think about the times when you redeemed it all
And dream that stars in the sky never fall (never fall, never fall)

(Hook) (Mecca)
I feel like everything is changing,
Woke up in the morning to a bunch of turning pages
I really thought I found the antidote,
Life is asking questions, I’m still wondering where the answers go
How come I only see the light in my dreams?
I’m just chasing after something, I don’t know what it means.
Who’s the one whose gotta change? Is it you? Is it us?
What are humans supposed to do when they aren’t human enough?

(Verse 2) (T.D.)
I’m battling with scattered thoughts
I’m trying to find my goldilocks,
A perfect mix of everything,
But I probably mixed it wrong
So if you just skipped this song
You never got the message
I just want to reply, you’re better than you conceive
You’re better than you believe
You’re better than two of me
Usually, we’re not viewed beautifully
I’ll tell you that you gotta live your dreams
But it don’t mean nothing, if you don’t believe
That’s what they try to do with the holy ghost
And tell you, if you don’t believe, you will surely roast
In a hell fire, like a few shells fired
Tired of dealing with liars, who believe they are suppliers
Supplying you with fibs, as they punch you in the ribs
Has me always asking what gives?
Of a just god, maybe I’ve gone too far and it must stop
Remember being young at the bus stop
Just waiting, we were passing all the days
On another’s watch, could have lived it in a daze
Get old enough, and you got something to say
They tell you that you always keep getting in the way
I’m only human, looking for some sympathy
When I’m in the stars, you can never come visit
We only try so hard, to avoid failure at everything

(Hook) 2x
Tell me about your reasons, tell me about your thoughts
Tell me if life is breathing, tell me if time is lost

(Hook) (Mecca)
I feel like everything is changing,
Woke up in the morning to a bunch of turning pages
I really thought I found the antidote,
Life is asking questions, I’m still wondering where the answers go
How come I only see the light in my dreams?
I’m just chasing after something, I don’t know what it means.
Who’s the one whose gotta change? Is it you? Is it us?
What are humans supposed to do when they aren’t human enough?

(Skit – Charlie Chaplin)
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....
The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural!

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from Take Me to Church, released May 20, 2015

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