*(Intro — softly, almost spoken)* **Tout moun se moun.** All are human. Before the names, before the flags, before the prayers, before the blame. **Tout moun se moun.** --- *(Verse 1)* The woman kneeling in the chapel, the man who never prays, The elder speaking ancient words, the child who asks *“Why?”* all day. The faithful and the faithless, the certain and the lost, The ones who build a bridge between us, the ones who count the cost. Different songs upon their lips, different roads beneath their feet, Different answers to the questions, different truths they think they meet. But strip away the banners, the titles and the names— **Tout moun se moun.** We are human all the same. --- *(Chorus — broad, communal)* **Tout moun se moun!** All are human! **Tout moun se moun!** Every one of us! Not because we're good, not because we're kind, Not because our hands are clean, or our hearts are right. **Tout moun se moun!** All are human! The beautiful and the scarred, The saint and the sinner, the gentle and the hard. --- *(Verse 2)* The Democrat and Republican, the monarch and the free, The person shouting across the street, the one who won't agree. The atheist and believer, the skeptic and the priest, The person certain God is there, the person sure He's ceased. You don't have to share my answer. You don't have to think like me. You don't have to earn your humanity to qualify as *we*. --- *(Pre-Chorus)* I can condemn an action without denying someone's soul. I can demand accountability without making hate my goal. I don't have to call you righteous. I don't have to call you good. I only have to recognize what you are— as I should. --- *(Chorus)* **Tout moun se moun!** All are human! **Tout moun se moun!** Every one of us! Not because we're good, not because we're kind, Not because our hands are clean, or our hearts are right. **Tout moun se moun!** All are human! The beautiful and the scarred, The saint and the sinner, the gentle and the hard. --- *(Verse 3 — darker, percussion begins building)* The tyrant and the victim, the soldier and the slain, The prisoner behind the bars, the mother grieving pain. The man who chose the murder, the family left behind, The one who did the terrible thing, the ones who bear the crime. Hitler was a human being. Pol Pot was human too. Bundy was not a monster from another world— he was a man who chose what he chose to do. And saying that they're human doesn't pardon what they did. It doesn't erase a victim. It doesn't say they should be freed. **Humanity is not innocence.** **Humanity is not praise.** It's simply what remains true when judgment has been made. --- *(Bridge — voices answering one another)* **Tout moun se moun.** The enemy? **Tout moun se moun.** The stranger? **Tout moun se moun.** The heretic? **Tout moun se moun.** The criminal? **Tout moun se moun.** The person I despise? **Tout moun se moun.** The person who despises me? **Tout moun se moun.** --- *(Quiet breakdown)* I don't know your whole heart. I don't know every fear that taught you how to hate. I don't know every wound you carried to this place. I can see what you have done. I can name the harm. I can stand against you. And still— **you are human.** --- *(Final Chorus — full band)* **Tout moun se moun!** All are human! **Tout moun se moun!** Every one of us! The powerful and powerless, the broken and the brave, The ones who give forgiveness, the ones who never gave. **Tout moun se moun!** All are human! No crown can change the truth, No prison can erase it, No doctrine can remove it, No hatred can replace it. --- *(Outro — voices gradually separating into individual lines)* The believer... **Moun.** The unbeliever... **Moun.** The stranger... **Moun.** The enemy... **Moun.** The victim... **Moun.** The guilty... **Moun.** You... **Moun.** Me... **Moun.** **Tout moun se moun.** All are human. All are human. **Tout moun se moun.**
