We Used To Talk (Alternative rock)

[Verse 1] Before you heard the argument, you knew which side was right Someone handed you the answers long before you had the fight You wear it like a mantle and call it your view And everything that challenges just never quite gets through [Chorus 1] We used to talk and compromise, not long ago that was life We listen to the echo chamber, accept its promise of strife We took the devil’s pact, agreed to the unwritten contract We don’t need to think, we have no need for facts [Verse 2] The flag, the cross, the manifesto — pick your loaded gun They promise you the truth without thinking to be done They pull you away from friends till strangers is all you see They tell you all you need to know, and when to take a knee [Chorus 2] There’s a face behind the label if you’d only care to look But you traded eyes for doctrine and a pre-determined book And empathy’s a muscle that atrophies unused We used to share the burden — but now we’re all unmoved [Verse 3] Maybe neighbors vote the wrong way but help you when you fall Maybe the enemy has children and a mother down the hall Maybe the ones you learned to hate are just you in a different light Maybe we’ve been fighting shadows in a manufactured fight [Chorus 3] We’re on opposite sides of an imaginary line Both convinced the other’s wrong, both certain we are fine But somewhere under all of it, we’re molded all from clay We could’ve found each other but let ourselves be led astray [Bridge] It doesn’t take a genius, doesn’t take a saint Just a mind that holds the questions without constraint Long enough to see not enemies but differences in degree Just someone else who’s swimming in the same sea