Only Human

[Verse 1]

It's only human to despise the weak

It's only human to despise yourself when you're weak

I don't know why

But that's the way that it's always been

And I play by the rules I don't understand at all

[Verse 2]

It's only human to be lazy and vain

It's only human to expect a world that's just as vain

Oh, I don't know why

I want to believe that it's not that way

But I'm johnny-come-lately, it's not my place to say

[Pre-Chorus]

There's no escape, tell me why do they try so hard?

[Chorus 1]

And I pretend that I'm invincible

That I can go it all alone

But I'm only human, trying to get by

And praying to heaven I might find out

Why am I human, mere flesh and blood

Afraid to go on without someone to hold me up

[Verse 3]

It's just a human thing to fear the unknown

But isn't it a tragic thing to live and die alone

Oh lord look at the world

Have you ever seen so much misery?

Like a ghost ship of fools, lost and floating out to sea

[Pre-Chorus]

There's no escape, tell me why do they try so hard?

[Chorus 2]

And they climb and they fall

Yet they struggle on the same fault

But they're only human, trying to get by

And praying to heaven they might find out

Why are we human, mere flesh and blood

We're afraid to go on without someone to hold us up

[Outro]

Human, try to get by

And praying to heaven they might find out

Why am I human

Mere flesh and blood

Afraid to go on without someone to hold us up...