Human Being

Tremulous and quivering such victims as there are Contend with emotions under skin Without wearing water wings The strike against the stream Hopelessly believing they might swim Here they all come rushing down again Here they all come rushing down again Time has hardly swallowed up the evidence How is it they say they did not know That history grows up like a weed Doctrine pinned upon it Bars across the window destroy human being Static mind solidifies Can no longer flow Up against it's borders and unable to pay Much attention to, Human being, human being Human being, human being When in doubt you turn to find a scapegoat on the wall Gaze into the mirror begging pardon If every time we tell a lie a little fairy dies They must be building death-camps in the garden Pacing back and forwards Conscience in a box Barred in from the sunlight getting pale And losing every sense of, Human being, human being Human being, human being The forces of oppression Forge links around the earth Ordering our faces to the floor The willful non-involvement By hirelings of the crimes Is futile and inhuman as before The sum of our best efforts Shouldn't lead us back to here On the road to murder Where we can no longer admit to any Human needing, human feeling Human living, human loving Human fragile, human being