If I lived the life I chose
I'd be alone all the time

But if I lived alone and sad
You never could be mine

So I will live among the mass
Of people looking in thru the glass

Looking at my life, my choices
Always chiming in with their voices

What do we do when there is so much bad?
(Slavery, abuse, lies, ******)
We know so much more than long ago
(Intelligent animals, cures for cancer, names of the stars)
Yet we have simply renamed our sins
(killing, hatred, hurting)
We say we don't do what the past has done

But in the end, we are the past
                                 and present
                                   and future
Its a cycle we cannot break
a lesson we cannot learn
These are the mistakes we will always make
We are human and will always burn the gifts that are given
and the lives that are at stake.