The Human Condition

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ © 2025 Adam Natoli all rights reserved. I'm happy for my work to be used, but please be polite and credit me for my writing or show that it's a remix of my original piece. Thank you 😊 [Man] I'm not trying to be seen as a good man, I'm just trying to better understand. For if I don't open my eyes, how could my view ever expand? [Spoken woman] Why do we choose to hate... and let our kindness dissipate... [Bridge] [Man] I've seen others deflect... when they should self-reflect... [Woman] I've felt the need to accept... where others chose to reject... [Chorus] [Man] It's not about being bad or good! It's about being accountable in the times we should! [Woman] Oh-ah-oh! Wo-ah-oh! [Man] A cage is only a prison if you lock the door... [Woman] So stop blaming others and confront your own flaw! [Change up] [Rap man] Yeah! Shadows can loom! With a sense of doom! Breaking us down within the gloom! We dig our own graves and design our own tombs! As we segregate ourselves in different rooms! Yeah, life isn't fair, but we still have to care! Even as our demons try to ensnare! We have to learn to face the glare, steel ourselves through the pain they bear, and be strong enough to meet their stare! [Spoken woman] Why do we choose to hate... and let our kindness dissipate... [Bridge] [Man] I've seen others deflect... when they should self-reflect... [Woman] I've felt the need to accept... where others chose to reject... [Chorus] [Man] It's not about being bad or good! It's about being accountable in the times we should! [Woman] Oh-ah-oh! Wo-ah-oh! [Man] A cage is only a prison if you lock the door... [Woman] So stop blaming others and confront your own flaw! [Tempo shift] [Rap man] You've got a pain in your brain, like a permanent stain! Just as you strain from that pain, when your brain goes insane! Yeah, it's hard to refrain from the mental drain! When your vision is slain in the pouring rain! [Spoken man] We're all walking blindly... So let's walk together kindly... [Bridge] [Woman] I've seen others deflect... when they should self-reflect... [Man] I've felt the need to accept... where others chose to reject... [Chorus] [Man] It's not about being bad or good! It's about being accountable in the times we should! [Woman] Oh-ah-oh! Wo-ah-oh! [Man] A cage is only a prison if you lock the door... [Woman] So stop blaming others and confront your own flaw! [Outro] [Spoken man] We all tell stories of our own rendition... I guess that's just... the human condition...