APATHY

APATHY [Verse 1] Everybody's talking, nobody is listening Everybody's watching, nobody will see We learned to scroll past somebody else's suffering And call it something happening on a screen We watch the headlines over breakfast Count the bodies, count the lies Then we turn the channel over So we don't have to meet their eyes [Pre-Chorus] Maybe we weren't born this way Maybe something happened on the way Maybe you can only feel so much Before feeling starts to fade [Chorus] Apathy You're everywhere I look In the words we say In the things we overlook Apathy Maybe you're not the absence of a heart Maybe you're what happens When we tear one apart [Verse 2] There's a woman crying in the doorway There's a child nobody sees There's a man who's been forgotten While we're arguing about degrees Everybody's got an opinion Everybody knows the truth But compassion has a limit When it's inconvenient to the truth We say, "It's not my problem" We say, "Somebody should care" We keep passing one another Like nobody's really there [Pre-Chorus] Maybe we weren't born this way Maybe we just learned to look away When the suffering gets ordinary It becomes another day [Chorus] Apathy You're everywhere I look In the words we say In the things we overlook Apathy Maybe you're not the absence of a heart Maybe you're what happens When we tear one apart [Instrumental Break] [Bridge] And I don't want to become you I don't want to lose my sight I don't want to call it normal Just because it happens every night But how many times can you witness What you cannot change? How many times can you reach out Before reaching feels insane? Maybe we're not heartless Maybe we're just tired Maybe every little tragedy Has slowly turned the fire [Instrumental Break] [Quiet Breakdown] And somewhere underneath the noise Somebody is still crying Somebody is still waiting Somebody is still trying And somewhere underneath the silence Somebody still believes That we could look at one another And remember what it means [Build] [Final Chorus] Apathy You're everywhere I look In the words we say In the things we overlook Apathy Maybe you're not the absence of a heart Maybe you're what happens When we tear one apart Apathy I won't pretend I don't know you I've felt you creeping in When caring starts to hurt you Apathy Maybe the hardest thing to do Is keep your heart open When the world keeps asking you not to [Outro - Sparse Instrumentation] Everybody's talking Nobody's listening Everybody's watching Nobody will see And maybe that's the tragedy Not that we've stopped feeling But that we've learned To live with what we feel And do nothing [Instrumental Outro - Fade]